CURCULIONID^. — TYCHiUS. 55 



Black, clothed above with purplish-gold or ashy-silvery scales, beneath with 

 compact white ones ; thorax with its lateral margins rounded and much 

 dilated, with a snowy- white dorsal Une, somewhat evanescent in front : elytra 

 with the suture and four spots — two at the base and two near the apex — white 

 or snowy : femora black, or rufo-piceous ; tibiae and tarsi deep ferruginous : 

 antennae rufo-ferruginous. 

 Rare ; I have seen but two specimens : of which the one that 



I possess was taken " Near South Creek, Norfolk." — Rev. F. 



Skrimshire. 



Sp. 2. venustus. Niger, cinereo-squamosus, thorace elytrisque albido-lineatis, 

 rostri apice, antennis tibiis tarsisque rufo-ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 

 lin.) 



CiL venustus. Fabricius. — Ty. venustus. Steph. Catal. 159. No. 1621. 



Black, densely clothed above with cinereous scales, and beneath with white : 

 head immaculate ; thorax with the lateral margins rounded, a longitudinal 

 dorsal line and the sides whitish : elytra punctate-striated, with the suture 

 whitish ; the fourth and sixth interstices the same, and the second occasionally 

 so, as well as the outer margin : femora obsoletely dentate, piceous; tibiae and 

 tarsi dusky-ferruginous: antennae and apex of the rostrum ferruginous. 



Variable in colour. 



Abundant on the Broom (Spartium scoparium) at Darenth and 

 Coombe Woods : found also in other places. " Occasionally found 

 near Swansea." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 3. nervosus. Ater, griseo-tomentosus, elytris striatis, interstitiis alternis 



pallidis, rostro pedibusque rufo-testaceis. (Long. corp. l| lin.) 

 Cu. nervosus. Marsham. — Ty. nervosus. Steph. Catal. 160. No. 1622. 



Black, covered with griseous scales : thorax with a pale dorsal line, and the 

 lateral margins rather broadly cinereous : elytra striated, the alternate inter- 

 stices pale ashy ; rostrum and legs rufo-testaceous. 



Rather variable in hue; and not improbably a variety of the foregoing species. 



Found near London, and in Norfolk and Suffolk. 



B. With the femora simple. 



a. Funiculus of the antennae 7-Jointed. 



Sp. 4. Mehloti. Bufo-piceus, puhe flavescenti tectus, rostro piceo, femorihus 



nigricantibus. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Si. Mehloti. Kirby MSS.—Ty. Meliloti. Steph. Catal. 160. No. 1623. 

 Rufo-piceous, densely clothed with aflavescent down: beneath whitish: thorax 



immaculate, with a sUght dorsal impression : elytra striated, the interstices 



