CURCULlONIDiE. — ERIRHINUS. 



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In employing the term Erirliinus for this genus— in which par- 

 ticular, however, I have been followed— I feel scarcely justified, 

 accordino- to the correct principles of nomenclature, inasmuch as 

 the type of Erirhinus of Schonherr is Rh. sethiops of Fabricius, con- 

 generous with Notaris acridulus, thus previously named, though 

 not published, by Germar; but as the insects included in this 

 genus form the second section of Schonherr's Erirhinus, and no 

 other generic name had been applied, I left his name in my Cata- 

 logue to designate them, not choosing to augment the immense 

 host of generic names already so extensively proposed :— the present 

 genus may be known from Notaris by the difference in the struc- 

 ture of the antennae and by its elongate body, and from Grypidius by 

 the latter character, as well as the absence of tubercles on the elytra, 

 the rounded apex of the latter, and the rounded scutellum :— the 

 species all frequent marshy situations, subsisting upon aquatic 

 plants. 



Sp. 1. FestuciE. Oblongus, fuscus, dense cinereo-squamosus, rostro pedibusque 



rufo-ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 4 lin.) 

 Cu.'Festuc«. Herbst.-Er. Yesiuc^. Steph. Catal. \65. No. 1680. 



Oblong, fuscous, densely clothed with ashy scales : head with minute punctures, 

 and thickly covered with griseous scales and pubescence: eyes brown : thorax 

 above opaque brown ; beneath, and the lateral margins, clothed with minute 

 ashy-white scales; the back with a few griseous hairs: scutellum whitish; 

 elytra obsoletely punctate-striate, the interstices finely coriaceous, with mi- 

 nute whitish scales, more or less denuded, so as to appear variegated, with a 

 distinct ovate spot in the middle of the base, and another obUque one a little 

 behind the middle, more densely squamose: sides of the breast and abdomen 

 clothed with compact whitish scales : legs and rostrum rufo-testaceous : an- 

 tennce piceous, with the club pubescent. 



Found on the flowers of Carex acutus and other aquatic plants - 

 rare in England- 



Sp. 2. Nereis. Lineari-elongatus,fuscus, supra obscure ferrugineis, dense cinereo- 

 squamosus, rostro pedibusqae rufo-ferrugineis, elytris antice piceis. (Long, 

 corp. 2i Un.) 



Cu. Nereis. Paykul.—Ex. Nereis. Sieph. Catal. 165. No. 1681. 



Linear-elongate, fuscous, above obscure ferruginous, densely clothed with ashy 

 scales: head piceous, subglabrous: thorax thickly punctulated, with the sides 

 Mandibulata. Vol. IV. 30th April, 1831. g 



