CURCULIONIDjE. — HYPERA. 101 



Rather narroiv ; black, sparingly clothed with an ashy pubescence : head very 

 obscurely punctulated : thorax finely punctured, immaculate ; elytra rather 

 faintly punctate-striate, with the apex immaculate: body beneath clothed 

 with ashy pubescence : legs entirely and antennse pitchy-red : rostrum rather 

 long, and a little attenuated. 



Found near Coombe-wood, and in other places near London. 



Sp. 25. variabilis. Nigra, cinereo squamulosa, antennis tihiisque ferrugineis, 

 thorace suhdepresso laterihus rotundato, lineis duahus dorsalihus, punctogue 

 utrinque fuscis, elytris fusco punctatis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 



Cu. variabilis. Herbst. — Hy. variabilis. Steph.Catal.\QQ.No.il^\. 



Black, clothed with ashy scales: head short, slightly pubescent, and obsoletely 

 punctured, with a faint depression between the eyes : thorax slightly depressed, 

 with the sides equally rounded, fuscous, with a broad pale streak on the sides, 

 and a narrow one in the middle, frequently with a metallic gloss, and a little 

 before the middle wzY/i a denuded fuscous spot : e?j/^ra fuscous-brown, punc- 

 tate-striate, with a large denuded common patch at the base, the alternate 

 interstices whitish, interrupted ivith denuded fuscous spots, especially behind ; 

 beneath black-brown: legs moderate; femora pitchy-black, with the tibice 

 and tarsi ferruginous : anten?ice Tpale ferruginous. 



Slightly variable in tint, some specimens being of a pale ferruginous hue ; evi- 

 dently the result of immaturity. 



Very abundant within the metropolitan district in June ; also in 

 Somersetshire and in Devonshire. 



Sp. 26. Arundinis. Nigra, squamulis pilisque densis lutescentibus tecta, thorace 

 suhcylindrico, fusco bilineato, rostro breviori subarcuato. (Long. corp. 4 — 4g 

 Hn.) 



Cu. Arundinis. Fabricius. — Hy. Arundinis. Steph. Catal. 169. No. 1732. 



Black, densely clothed with compact lutef.:L\^nt scales : rostrum rather long, black, 

 pubescent, with the apex glabrous: head convex, punctured with a longi- 

 tudinal impression between the eyes : thorax subcylindric, with two fuscous 

 longitudinal stripes, separated by a very narrow line: elytra faintly punctate- 

 striated, densely clothed with lutescent scales, which are brightest on the sides ; 

 and at the apex of the suture is a small common ^a^cow,? spot: body beneath 

 also lutescent: legs black, sparingly clothed with an ashy-down: antennas 

 black, with the base piceous. 



Rare; taken in marshy places near Exeter, and I believe in 

 Norfolk. 



Sp. 27. elongata. Atra, cinereo-pubescens, rostro breviori arcuato, thorace ro- 

 tundato subtrilineato, elytris elongatis, obsolete fusco-maculatis. (Long. corp. 

 3§lin.) 



