120 COLEOPTERA. 



Procas Steveni, Schon., Cure, iii, 287, 5 ; G. R. Crotch, 

 Cat. Brit. Col. ed. 2. 



Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.) has no doubt that P. picipes and 

 P. granulicollis are extreme forms of the same species; 

 and states that Mr. Wollaston's remarks in the ** Coleoptera 

 Atlantidum" to this effect accord perfectly with the views 

 of several continental Entomologists. 



Schonherr's name, though later in date, is adopted for 

 Marsham's picipes, which was unfortunately preoccupied. 



Otiorhynchus fuscipes, Oliv., Walton, Wat. Cat. E. C. 



Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. ii, pp. 181, 233 ; F. Smith, 



loc. cit. p. 232. 

 I have recorded as above the reasons for my opinion that 

 this species has not yet been properly recorded as British ; 

 an opinion not shared by Mr. Smith, who was intimately 

 acquainted with the late Mr. Walton, and who considers 

 Schonherr's confirmation of that gentleman's fuscipes as 

 decisive. It is only necessary to state here that Germar 

 differed in this matter from Schonherr, and that continental 

 Entomologists of the present day (including Stierlin, the 

 monographer of the genus Otiorhynchus) appear decided in 

 referring O. 'fuscipes, Oliv., to a different species from that 

 so named by Mr. Walton ; all the specimens of the latter 

 that have come under my observation being, indeed, nothing 

 but O. tenebricosus. 



The insect recognized as O. fuscipes is narrower and more 

 elongate than the latter, with the legs more often bright red, 

 a shorter and broader thorax, and the elytra either more 

 deeply striated or with more rugose interstices, and having 

 no scanty patches of pubescence. In the male, which is 

 still narrower than the female, the last segment of the abdo- 



