CURCULIONID^. — HYPERA. 93 



in June. « Wetheral."— T. C. Heijsham, Esq.—" Netley, in 

 Sa\o^r—Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 2. fasciculosa. Niger, dense albido fuscoque squamulosus , thorace alho-tri- 

 lineato, antennis tibiisque ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 lin.) 



Cu. fasciculatus. Herbst.—Hy. fasciculosa. Curtis, iii. pi. 1 U.—Steph. Catal. 

 168. No. 1708. 



Black, densely clothed ivith luhite a.nA fuscous scales : head short, with the fore- 

 head depressed, covered with white scales: thorax slightly depressed, the 

 sides rounded, the disc thickly punctured, clothed with brassy-hrown scales 

 and hairs, with three lines of silvery white ones, united anteriorly, the spaces 

 between white, and the sides variegated with black fascicles : elytra ample, 

 ohsoletely punctate-striate, densely clothed throughout with scales, of which 

 those towards the suture are dusky-brown, the outer ones whitish, all with 

 rows of whitish hairs ; suture white, tessellated with quadrate black fascicles ; 

 the alternate interstices also fasciculated with black ; at the base are two 

 abbreviated velvety black streaks, and towards the middle of the disc a curved 

 line of the same, beyond which, on the shoulder, is a large white, nearly 

 immaculate patch : legs piceous, variegated with cinereous : tibiae and antennae 

 dull ferruginous. 

 Rare : it has been taken several times in Norfolk, and in the Isle 



of Thanet. " J)ea\,"—Rev. F. W. Hope. 



B. With the body oblong. a. Winged. 



Sp. 3. Polygoni. Niger, pubescens, thorace lineis tribus albis, elytris cinereo- 

 squamosis, suturd dentata, lineisque tribus abbreviatis nigris. (Long. corp. 

 3 lin.) 



Rh. Polygoni. Fabricius.—By. Polygoni. Steph. Catal. 168. No. 1708. 



Oblong, black, pubescent, head fuscous, with a delicate griseous pubescence ," 

 forehead impressed, with a whitish pilose line reaching from the middle of 

 the rostrum to the vertex : thorax very thickly punctured, clothed with dusky- 

 ash scales and hairs, tuith three distinct testaceous white or greenish lines : 

 scutellum whitish: elytra punctate-striate, interstices densely covered with 

 cinereous scales, the suture anteriorly white, posteriorly dentated with black 

 and white, disc with three abbreviated black lines, alternating with elongated 

 white ones : legs cinereous : antennae ferruginous, with the club fuscous. 



Not common in the neighbourhood of London, and I believe 

 elsewhere : I have received specimens from the vicinity of Bristol. 



Sp. 4. arator. Fuscus, pubescens, thorace lineis tribus testaceis, elytris testaceis, 



suturd nigra dentata lineisque brunneis. (Long. corp. 3 3^ Im.) 

 Cu. arator, Linne.—Hy. arator. Steph. Catal. 168. No. 1710. 



