CURCULIONIDiE. — DORYTOMUS. 85 



Jerrugineis, rostro crassiori rugoso, elytris ferrugineo cinereoque variegatis. 

 (Long. Corp. 2 lin.) 

 €u. affinis. Paykul—Do. a.mm?,. Steph. CataL 166. No. -1693. 



Black, rather densely clothed with cinereous pubescence ; head rounded^ thickly 

 punctulate, the forehead rather densely villose ; eyes dusky-black : thorax 

 rather faintly and thickly punctate, clothed with a longer pubescence, with a 

 slight dorsal carina, and three denuded dorsal lines, and an obscure spot on 

 each side without : scutellum black : elytra black, punctate-striate, varied 

 with irregular denuded spots and blotches; legs dull ferruginous, or pale 

 rufescent, femora anteriorly dentate, with the base of the tibiae blackish. 



Sometimes pale variegated with fuscous; or with the shoulders, suture, and 

 sides of the elytra ferruginous, and the margins of the abdomen rufous. 



Not common, but found within the metropolitan district : frequent- 

 ing the flowers of willows. " Among herbage (near Swansea)." — 

 L. W. Dillwyn.) Esq. 



Sp. 8. Tremulae. Fusco-Jerrugineus, cinereo-pubescens, rostro tenui atro, sub- 

 striato, elytris cinereo J'uscoque variegatis, genubus nigricantibus. (Long. 

 Corp. 2 — 2g lin.) 



Cu. Tremulae. Paykul.—Do. Tremulae Steph. Catal. 166. No. 1694. 



Dusky-ferruginous, clothed with cinereous pubescence : head rounded, with a 

 frontal impression : eyes brown : thorax with an obsolete transverse impres- 

 sion ; the disc posteriorly convex, dusky-testaceous, more or less blotched 

 with fuscous, finely punctured, with the disc nearly smooth, densely pubescent, 

 with three denuded Unes: scuteUum dusky- testaceous : elytra somewhat convex, 

 punctate-striated, dusky-ferruginous, marbled with various misshapen denuded 

 fuscous or black spots, and pubescent ashy ones more or less confluent : breast 

 rather obscure : legs with the joints dusky : rostrum slender, black, slightly 

 striated : antennae pale testaceous. 



Not uncommon within the metropolitan district, and found occa- 

 sionally in other parts. " Among grass in woods (near Swansea), 

 not common." — L. W. Dilhvyn, Esq. 



Sp. 9. fumosus. Obscure fusco-ferrugineus, pubescens, capite, thoracis fascia 



media, elytrorum disco, pedibusque fusco-piceis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 J lin.) 

 Cu. fumosus. Rossi. — Do. maculatus. Steph. Catal. 166. No. 1695. 



Obscure dusky-ferruginous ; pubescent; head insco-piceous : thorax the same, 

 with the anterior and posterior margins broadly Y\i£o-testaceous, the disc 

 obscurely punctured, the sides more distinctly so : elytra marbled with 

 cinereous and pitchy-brown, with the suture and margin fusco-ferrnginous, 

 with two whitish spots towards the apex of the disc, one behind the other : 

 breast and base of the abdomen fusco-piceous : legs rufo-ferruginous, with 

 the joints sometimes fuscescent. 



Rather variable in the colour of the elytra and in the disposition of the spots. 



