Not having had the opportunity of carefully studying the sy- 

 stematic arrangement of Schonherr, I should not be warranted 

 in criticising his labours. I shall therefore merely remark, 

 with regard to the present genus, that he has placed the divi- 

 sion Cholides, to which Bans belongs, between his Erirhinides 

 (vide pi. 634) and his Cryptorhynchides (Acalles, pi. 550), 

 instead of connecting it with Calandra as it generally has been. 

 Baris being the original name given to this group by 

 Germar, it is much to be regretted that Schonherr should have 

 changed it in his work to Haridius, encumbering science with 

 an useless name and depriving one of our veteran entomolo- 

 gists of his just reward. The following are British species : 



* Antennce inserted at the middle of the rostrum ; 2>rd joint 



elongated. 



1 . T — album Linn. — Atriplicis Payk. — Oliv. 5. No. 83. t. 27. 

 J". 404. — pilistriatus Kirb. var. — hypoleucus Mars. 



March, in moss, Battersea fields ; end of May, on rushes 

 in meadows and in hedges, Norfolk and Suffolk, J. C ; So- 

 merset and Bristol ; on Erica tetralix, Crwmlyn bog, Mr. 

 Dillwyn. 



** Antennce inserted beyond the middle ; 3rd joint short. 



2. Artemisiae Fab. — Panz. 18. 10. — laticollis Mars. 



May and June, on Artemisia vidgaris, Essex ; I have taken 

 it also in Suffolk, on sandy banks. 



3. impunctatus Kirb. — Step. — Schm. — cyaneus Curt. 

 Suffolk and in the neighbourhood of London : my speci- 

 mens I received from the late Mr. E. Hobson of Manchester. 



4. analis Oliv. — Curt. Brit. Ent.pl. 766. 



This valuable acquisition was only recorded as an inha- 

 bitant of the south of France, Italy and Dalmatia, until the 

 specimen figured was captured near Ryde in thelsle of Wight, 

 in June, by the Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



5. picicornis Mars. p. 276. 115. — Lepidii MiXll. — Scho. 



Not uncommon at Gravesend ; I once found several speci- 

 mens at Earlham in Norfolk, in the flowers of Reseda lutea^ 

 pi. 48, the end of June. 



Rhyneolus and Mecinus, which I formerly included with 

 Baris, are undoubtedly distinct genera. 



The plant is Chrysocoma Liyiosyris^ Goldylocks, from Berry- 

 head, Torbay, for which I am indebted to Mrs. Griffiths, of 

 Torquay, and S. H. Haslam, Esq. 



