CURCULlONIDiE. — NEDYUS. 33 



Black: thorax convex, with the anterior margin rufous, the surface clothed with 

 a delicate ashy down; the lateral margin ohsoletely tuberculate: elytra dull 

 rufous, rather faintly crenate- striate, the interstices lineated with cinereous 

 hairs : the body beneath black, clothed with scattered whitish down : lei^s 

 black, tibice testaceous. 



The testaceous tibia, black, convex, thorax, with its rufous anterior margin, 

 obsolete lateral tubercles, and dull-rufous elytra, well characterize this pretty 

 little species. 

 Not common : it is found near London, and I have received it 



from Norfolk. 



Sp. 17. Ericffi. Niger, cinerascenti-villosus, sutura; basi pectoregue albo-squa- 

 mosis, antennis pedibus rostroque longissimo ienus rvjis, thorace subdepresso 

 bituberculato. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



Rh. Ericffi. Gyllenhal.—Ne. Ericse. StepJi. Catal. 154. No. ISGO. 



Black, clothed with cinereous down : the thorax somewhat depressed, its sides 

 with a single small tubercle, the disc granulate-punctate: elytra with the 

 shoulders rather prominent ; the disc punctate-striate, the interstices slightly 

 rugulose and lineated with cinereous, the suture from the base to the middle 

 clothed with whitish scales: thorax and breast beneath densely clothed with 

 whitish scales: legs, antennae, and rostrum— the latter long and slender— 

 rufous. 



The rufous antennte, legs, and rostrum, with the pale base of the suture on the 

 elytra, at once distinguish this species. 



Apparently rare : I possess a single example, captured on Heath 

 near London. 



b. With the femora dentate. 

 Sp. 18. ovalis. Subdepressus, nigro cinereoque nebulosus, thorace hituherculafo 



puncto utrinque nigro, antennis pedibusque nigris, tarsis obscure ferrugineis. , 



(Long. corp. 1 1—9. lin.) 

 Cu. ovaUs. Marsham.—Ne. ovalis. Steph. Catal. 154. No. 15S1. 



Somewhat depressed : black with whitish clouds and spots above, beneath entirely 

 ashy-white: thorax with the disc and a spot on each side black, the former 

 with a whitish dorsal hne, interrupted in the middle, and terminating broadly 

 at the base, where there is a rather deep impression : elytra striated, varied 

 with bright white spots and black clouds, the former colour disposed in a 

 somewhat waved spot near the base of the suture, a broad lateral patch about 

 the middle, and a sublunate one at the apex: antennw and legs black, tarsi 

 obscure ferruginous. 



Var. ? Ne. detritus. Steph. Catal. 154. N'o. 1562.— Black, varied with indistinct 

 cinereous clouds, disposed as in the foregoing. 



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