CURCULIONID^. 



189 



(2 Ser. ix.) 1898, 52-54) ; the forms may be thus 



Mo. Mag. xxxiv. 

 separated : 



I. Taryi red. 



i. Size smaller ; 3rd joint of posterior tarsi 



as broad as long ; interstices of elytra 



narrower and alternate ones more raised ; 



tarsi shorter ...... 



ii. Size larger ; 3rd joint of posterior tarsi 

 elongate ; interstices of elytra broader ; 

 alternate ones scarcely raised ; tarsi 

 longer ....... 



B. GLABRIROSTRIS, Hevhst. 



(type form). 



II. Tarsi piceous or black ; sculpture coarser 



B. GLABRIROSTRIS, 



{var. major, n. var.). 



B. GLABRIROSTRIS, 



{var. nigritarsis, Thorns.) 



The var. major is rare : Merton (one specimen). Power ; Sandown 

 (one specimen), Champion ; Pevensey and Rye (Bennett) ; the ordinary 

 form and the var. nigritarsis are widely distributed, and the former is 

 sometimes abundant. 



Mr. Heasler has taken three specimens of a new variety named 

 var. heasleri by Mr. Newbery, which evidently belong to B. tempesfisus, 

 by reason of its form, &g., but which he places in the same section as 

 B. glahrirostris in his table, because it has the third joint of the tarsi 

 distinctly broader than the second, although scarcely bilobed, whereas 

 in the type form the tarsi have the third joint not or very little broader 

 than the second ; in the type form, moreover, the scape is inserted 

 nearer to the apex of the rostrum, whereas in the variety it is inserted 

 near the middle. 



SMICRONYX, Schonherr. 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for June 1910, 132-135, Mr. James Edwards 

 discusses the genus Smicronyx ; he says we have three species which 

 may be distinguished as follows : 



I. Claws unequal ; the inner one on the 

 front tarsi, and the outer one on the 

 middle and hind tarsi the smaller 



II. Claws equal, 

 i. Length of the elyti^a visually twice as 



great as their width at the base ; thorax 

 without any appearance of tuberculation 

 ii. Length of the elytra visually one and 

 a half times as great as their width at 

 the base ; thorax apparently tuberculate S. reichi, Gyll. 



The S. 2)ygmceus {Pissodes ?) of Curtis appears originally to hav^ 

 been a synonym of >S. ccecics and not of >S'. reichi, Gj'll., as given 

 ia the last European Catalogue. *S'. cicur, Gyll., is synonymous with 



S. ccECUS, Reich,' 



S. JUNGERMANNIiE, Reich, 



