74 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



each side of dense ashy-villi: scutellum snowy: elytra dusky ferruginous, 

 punctate-striate, with an oblong brownish spot near the scutellum, a denuded 

 very ohlicjue fascia of the same colour in the viiddle, and behind another 

 somewhat transverse, obsolete one, the space between the fasciae densely 

 covered with whitish pubescence: legs rufo-ferruginous ; /emora dusky in the 

 middle; anterior with a very stout tooth: antennae ferruginous, with the club 

 dusky: rostrum piceous. 



Not uncommon on the blossoms of whitethorn, and on other 

 plants, in June and July, in woods and gardens. 



Sp. 3. Ulmi. Rufo-testaceus, subpubescens, capite, rostro tenu3 arcuato elongato, 

 pectoreque nigro-piceis, thoracis lined Tnedid, scutello elytrorumque fascia pos- 

 tic&, transversd, albis. (Long. corp. if — Sj hn.) 



Cu. Ulmi. De Geer.—Ax\. Uhni. Steph. Catal. 164. No. 1670. 



Testaceous-rei\.: slightly pubescent : head pitchy-Z»/acA;, with a frontal impression : 

 thorax thickly punctured, with a slender, whitish pubescent, dorsal line : scu- 

 tellum snowy-white : elytra with an obsolete transverse impression near the 

 base, moderately punctate-striated; each elytron before the middle with a. 

 large o\)\on^-quadrate fuscous-hrovin patch, and behind it a transverse whitish 

 one : body beneath ferruginous : legs rufo-ferruginous : antennae ferruginous, 

 with the club dusky : rostrum black. 



Less abundant than the foregoing species : found during the 

 summer on the elm and service trees, within the metropolitan 

 district, and near Bristol. 



Sp. 4. fasciatus. Fusco-piceus, subpubescens, rostro antennis pedibusque rujis, 

 elytris fusco-ferrugineis, albido-fasciatis, scutello albo. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Cu. fasciatus. Marsham. — An. fasciatus. Steph. Catal. 164. No. 1671. — An. 

 Pomonae. Germar, M. iv. 



Pitchy-brown ; clothed with ashy pubescence : thorax dusky-ferruginous, with 

 a white dorsal line : scutellum white : elytra brunneous, with the base and apex 

 paler, and with two very irregular whitish pilose fascia, one near the base, 

 the other behind the middle, the latter scarcely touching the suture ; the disc 

 sUghtly punctate-striate : breast and abdomen pitchy-black : legs, antennae, 

 and rostrum rufous, the latter sometimes fuscescent at the apex. 



Immature specimens are sometimes entirely testaceous. 



Common on the flowers of the whitethorn and apple in the 

 hedges and woods throughout the metropolitan district. " On 

 hedge-roses, and particularly on the flowers of Rosa spinosissima 

 on Sketty-burrows, not uucommon." — L. W. Dillwijn, Esq, 



