196 CURCULIONID^. 



Caterham (on Mercurialis perennis) : it has also been recorded from 

 Hammersmith and Llangollen ; Wytham Park (Walker). Mr. 

 Champion has recently (Ent. Mo. Mag. xliv. (2 Ser. xix.) 1908, 2) 

 identified it with G. moguntiacus, Schultze. It appears to be closely 

 allied to C. timichbs, Weise, but it is smaller, narrower, and less shining 

 than that species, and has the head and thorax a little less coarsely and 

 more densely punctured, and (when the insect is in fresh condition) 

 more pubescent. The two insects, however, may eventually prove to 

 be only forms of one species. C. moguntiacus is common on Cruciferse 

 in various parts of Germany, especially on Diplotaxis tenuifolia. Mr. 

 Champion has specimens from Mickleham and Guildford, as well as 

 from the localities above mentioned. 



C. parvulus, Bris. (L'Abeille, v. p. 441). A small species 

 which superficially bears a very strong resemblance to small C. floralis, 

 Payk., from which it may be known by its average smaller size, somewhat 

 narrower form, longer antennas, 7-jointed funiculus, and the broader, 

 whiter, and more conspicuous scales of the interstices of the elytra ; the 

 thorax, also, is longer proportionately ; colour black ; form somewhat 

 elongate-oval ; head rugose, eyes not prominent, rostrum i-ather long, 

 antennje long inserted in front of middle ; thorax about as long as broad, 

 constricted before apex, very coarsely sculptured, together with the 

 head furnished with scattered coarse hau-s ; elytra with the shoulders 

 scarcely marked, about as broad at base as thorax, with a conspicuous 

 band of white scales at the suture, and coarse scales on the interstices ; 

 antennae and legs dark. L. li mm. 



Taken in numbers by Mi*. Philip de la Garde, in June 1908, on 

 Lejndium heterophyllum, Benth. ( = L. smithii, Hooker), near Braunton, 

 Devon, and introduced as British by Mr. Newbery (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 xliv. (2 Ser. xix.) 1908, 10.5). I am much indebted to Mr. de la Garde 

 for a small series of this interesting addition to our lists ; it is probably 

 common in many localities in the south, but has most likely been passed 

 over as C. floralis. From C sicturalis (which may, with reason, how- 

 ever, be erased from our catalogues), it is easily known by the fact that 

 the light sutural band of scales is not continued on the thorax as it is in 

 the last-named species. 



C. querceti, Gyll. (Ins. Suec. iii. p. 149 ; Thoms. Skand. Col. 

 vii. p. 170). Short ovate, slightly convex, with greyish pubescence, 

 upper side somewhat dull, with the base of the suture and the underside 

 covered with thick white scales ; antennas, anterior margin of thorax, 

 legs, and apex of elytra clear red ; thorax strongly and rather closely 

 punctured, with the apical margin broadly emarginate ; elytra slightly 

 truncate at apex. Male with the posterior tibipe armed with a hooked 

 tooth ; last ventral segment with an impressed fovea in the centre. 

 Length about 2 mm. 



Horning Fen, "NTorfolk : two specimens in Mr. E. Saunders' collec- 

 tion taken about thirty years ago by the late Mr. J. A, Brewer, and 

 others taken more recently in the same locality by Mr. Edwards and 



