NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1869. 103 



and with a very small white point behind the middle of 

 each elytron. It cannot be satisfactorily compared with 

 any recorded British Curculio. 



Gyllenhal records it as occurring under stones, in the 

 spring, in Sweden and Gothland ; Thomson mentions its 

 being found on sand-hills, and living on willows ; it occurs 

 also in France, Austria, Prussia, and elsewhere in Europe. 



151. Otiorhynchus fuscipes, Walton ; D. Sharp, Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vi, 107; F. Smith, ib., 135. 



Dr. Sharp, having found insects exhibiting the correct 

 male character (of even and fine striation on the last ventral 

 segment) of O. fuscipesy proposes to supplement Walton's 

 description of his insect by that character. He has no doubt 

 whatever that we possess in Mr. Walton's fuscipes a species 

 distinct from O. tenebricosuSy and thinks it not improbable 

 that it is O. fuscipes of Olivier and Stierlin, and that 

 Dr. Stierlin has erroneously determined the insect sent under 

 that name to the British Museum. 



Mr. Smith has proposed the name Waltoni for Mr. Walton's 

 insect, distinguishing it from fuscipes, Oliv., and identifying 

 it vf\{h.fagi, Chevr., which is, however, a recognized var. of 

 fuscipes, Oliv. 



There can, I think, from collateral evidence, be no doubt 

 that Dr. Stierlin's fuscipes was correctly determined ; but I 

 am inclined to agree with Dr. Sharp, as he can produce in- 

 sects with the proper characters which I have in vain sought 

 to find (in spite of my examination of numerous specimens, 

 including all I could yet see named by Mr. Walton himself, 

 who omits the proper male character of fuscipes), that 

 Walton's insect is not unlikely to be an extreme var. of true 

 fuscipes. 



Mr. Smith's provisional name, in itself contradictory, will 

 in that case not be required. 



