CURCULIONID^. 197 



Mr. Elliman. Mr. Elliman's examples (four in number) were taken 

 upon a solitary cruciferous plant, probably Raphamis raphanisirum. 

 It has recently been found in large numbers at Horning Feriy. 



C. querceti is closely allied to Ceuthorrhynchus {Ceiithorrhynchidius) 

 terminatus, Herbst., Avhich occurs in many dry localities under Daucus, 

 but it may easily be distinguished by its smaller size, the 7-jointed 

 funiculus, the unarmed femora, and the fact that the patch of white 

 scales on the elytra is narrower. In fresh individuals the elytra have 

 narrow patches of white scales on the surface, and the thorax has the 

 sides and a narrow space along the middle also clothed with white scales. 

 The rufous patch at apex is variable, and sometimes extends over a 

 great part of the elytra (v. G. C. Champion, Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxv. 

 {2 Ser. X.) 1899, 142). The species has been recorded on the Continent 

 from Sweden, Russia, Germany, and Switzerland, but has not yet been 

 found in France. 



CEUTHORRHYNCHIDIUS, Duval. 



C. nigroterminatus, Woll., is not a synonym of C. mixtus ; 

 it is distinct and not even a European, but a Madeiran insect. C. crotchi 

 is synonymous with C nigroterminatus, and is not a variety of C 

 quercicolor, Payk., as has been considered to be the case. 



C. barnevillei, Gren. (Bull. Soc. Ent. Franc. 1866, 65). This 

 name must be substituted for C. chevrolati, Bris.. the latter being, as 

 Mr. Champion points out, a " nonien nudum." 



It is worthy of note that in the European Catalogue of Heyden, 

 Reitter, and Weise (1906) only five British species are placed under 

 Ceuthorrhynchidiiis, viz., horridios, Panz., troglodytes, F., barnevillei, 

 Gren., ritfidus,T)v\it {= frontalis, Bris.), and daicsoui, Bris.: all the 

 rest appear under Ceuthorrhynchus except C. ericce, Gyll., which is 

 placed with the single other European species, C. ferrugatns, GylL, 

 under the genus Micrelus, Thomson. 



The number of joints in the funiculus is not now considered as a 

 geneiic character, and rightly so, for it has given rise to several 

 anomalies {e.g. the separation of Ceuthorrhynchus marginatus, Payk. 

 and Geu,thorrhynchidius distinctus, Bris. which are apparently one speciea 

 (v. Brit. Col. V. p. 364) ), and has caused much confusion. The species 

 of Ceiithorrhynchidius proper have, indeed, the funiculus 6-jointed, but 

 their tarsal claws are dentate on the inner side of the base, and the 

 interstices of the elytra are furnished with a more or less distinct 

 row of upright bristles, which gives them a facies quite distinct from 

 the other species which are now included under the genus Ceuthor- 

 rhynchus. 



I'oojjhagus nasturtii, Germ., is now referred by all recent Continental 

 authorities to the genus Ceuthorrhynchus. P. sisymbrii, F., is retained 

 with three other European species under Poopfiagtis, Schbnheir, in the 

 last European Catalogue (1906). 



