CURCULIONID^. — GYMNAETRON. 13 



Cu. circulatus. Marsham.— Me. circ\ila,t\is. Steph. Catal. 14^9. 'No. 1506. 



Linear-elongate^ black, villose : thorax with the lateral margins and an obscure 

 dorsal line clothed with whitish down : elytra broadly margined with pale 

 griseous- white, and a brighter white spot within the apex; body beneath 

 whitish : legs rufous, with the femora piceous : antennae rufous, with the club 

 dusky. 



Much less abundant than the last : it has been taken, I believe, 

 near London ; and I think Mr. Kirby told me that he once took a 

 quantity of specimens on some palings, at Barham. " Sometimes 

 occurs on the sand-hills, and has been taken early in the spring, 

 under stones, in the fir-woods above Gnoll Castle," — L. W. Dill- 

 wyn, Esq. 



Genus CCLXXVI. — Gymnaetron, Schdnherr. 



AntenneB geniculated, 10-jointed, short, rather slender ; funiculus 5-jointed, 

 its two basal joints obconic ; the three following short, broader, with the apex 

 somewhat rounded, the club ovate. Rostrum filiform, curved, inflexed: 

 thorax transverse, the base slightly waved : elytra subovate, convex, not cover- 

 ing the apex of the abdomen: legs short : apex of the anterior tibioe with a 

 minute hook. 



This genus, which in common with the two following has the 

 antennae 10-jointed, and the anterior tibiae armed at the apex with 

 a minute hook, differs from them by having the body ovate-convex, 

 densely clothed with scales, and the apex of the abdomen much ex- 

 posed ; — the rostrum is filiform, and not received into a pectoral 

 cavity as in Miarus. 



Sp. 1. Beccabungae. Niger, thoracis laterihus pectoreque albido-squamosis, an- 

 tennarum basi, tibiis elytrorumque plagd rufo-testaceis. (Long. corp. 1 — 1^; 

 lin.) 



Cu. Beccabungae. Linne. — Gy. Beccabungae. Steph. Catal. 150. iVb. 1508. 



Black, densely pubescent, with the sides of the thorax and the breast densely 

 clothed with whitish scales : thorax with the disc slightly squamose : elytra 

 pubescent, with an obscure rufo-testaceous discoidal streak towards the apex : 

 femora clavate, black, tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous ; antennae ferruginous, 

 with the club black : rostrum black. 



It varies in having the thorax nearly entirely covered with ashy- white or ochra- 

 ceous scales, the elytra dull rufo-testaceous, or immaculate, with the suture 

 and margin dusky-black, and the legs entirely testaceous. 



