CURCULIONID^. — HYPEUA. 99 



edged with the same: elytra pitchy-black, sparingly clothed with greenish 

 scales, punctate-striate ; immaculate : antennae, legs, and rostrum rufo-fuhous. 

 It is not impossible that this may be only a variety of the foregoing species. 



Taken within the metropolitan district. 



b. Apterous. 

 Sp. 19. Plantaginis. Nigra, cinereo-squamulosa, pedibus fusco-ferrugineis, 



thorace subdepresso, utrinque valde dilatato, elytris macula magna laterali 



denudata. (Long. corp. 2—3 hn.) 

 Cu. Plantaginis. De Geer.—Uy. Plantaginis. Steph. Catal. 169. No. 1725. 



Black, clothed with ashy scales : head convex, finely punctulated, with an im- 

 pression between the eyes : thorax short, with the sides considerably rounded, 

 dilated, and obsoletely angular, above slightly depressed, black, very finely 

 punctulated, with the under surface and sides ashy-white, sometimes a little 

 metallic; the disc vrith a distinct silvery or greenish line: elytra blackish- 

 brown, rather obsoletely punctate-striate, densely clothed with ashy-white 

 scales, with a large oblong denuded patch on the disc of each, placed somewhat 

 laterally, bordered without by a series of fuscescent spots ; and at the apex of 

 the suture an abbreviated black line : legs stout, rufo-ferruginous : femora 

 piceous : antennae rufo-ferruginous, with the club dusky. 



Slightly variable in bulk, and considerably so in colour ; the latter the probable 

 result of immaturity. 



Very abundant in clover-fields near Darenth-wood, and in other 

 parts of the metropolitan district : also in the vicinity of Bristol. 

 " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 20. Trifolii. Nigra, cinereo-puhescens, antennis tihiisque ferrugineis, rostra 

 tenuiori mediocri, thorace brevi depresso trilineato, pectore ceneo- squamosa - 

 (Long. Corp. 2—3 lin.) 



Cu. Trifolii. Herhst.—'Ry. Trifolii. Steph. Catal. 169. No. 1726. 



Black, with cinereous pubescence : head small : thoi-ax short, depressed, with the 

 sides considerably dilated, a little convex above, with a slender central line, 

 and a somewhat curved one on each side of whitish or virescent squamous 

 hairs : elytra slightly convex, black, delicately punctate-striate, sparingly 

 clothed with small scales and hairs and whiter fascicles of hair, more or less 

 variegated with abbreviated streaks and denuded obscure spots, with the 

 suture fuscous anteriorly, and whitish, spotted with fuscous posteriorly : 

 body beneath thickly punctured, with the breast densely clothed with silvery 

 or greenish scales : legs moderate ; femora dusky or black, tibiw and tarsi for 

 the most T^&xi ferruginous or dull testaceous: antennce ferruginous, with the 

 club cinereous. 



Less common than the last, but not unfrequent within the me- 

 tropolitan district : also found in Norfolk and Suffolk. 



