CURCULIONID^. — RHINOCYLLUS. 161 



elytra oblong, sublinear, convex, with the base of each rounded, the apex ob- 

 tuse : legs stout ; tibiw armed within at the tip, with a minute hook. 



The straight antennse of this genus at once points out its great 

 discrepancy from any of the foregoing genera; — the rostrum is also 

 very short and incrassated, with the antennse inserted towards the 

 apex, &c. 



Sp. 1. thaumaturgus. Niger, cinei'eo nebidosus, capite thoracecjue cinereo-fusco 

 villosis, elytris striatis, interstitiis suhpunctatis. (Long. corp. 2| — 3 hn.) 



Cu. thaumaturgus. Rossi.— Eh. thaumaturgus. Steph. Catal. p. 182. No. 1866. 

 — Cu. Cardui. Don. xv. j)l' 502. 



Black, clouded with cinereous: rostrum carinated above, and an abbreviated 

 carina on each side at the base, adjacent to which are two oblong small 

 tubercles: thorax obsoletely granulated, clothed with rather long ashy-brown 

 hairs ; the lateral margins whitish : elytra striate, the interstices obscurely 

 punctured, and furnished more or less with ashy pile, disposed in waved lines: 

 legs clothed with whitish down : antennse piceous-black. 



More abundant in England than the foregoing species, but never- 

 theless not very common : it appears to occur most frequently on 

 the southern coast, at no great distance inland, as at Brighton, 

 Bognor, the Isle of Wight, Weymouth, the New Forest, &c. "Near 

 Canterbury."" — Mr. Ingpen. 



Genus CCCXL. — Chloroplanus, Dalman. 



Antenna; not geniculated, 12-jointed, inserted towards the apex of the rostrum ; 

 the basal joint elongate, the joints of the funiculus obconic, gradually shorten- 

 ing; club ovate^ acuminate. Rostrum short, with a longitudinal carina in 

 the middle, the apex deeply notched : eyes rounded, moderately prominent : 

 thorax oblong, narrowed anteriorly, the base bisinuated : scutellum small, tri- 

 angular : elytra ample, ovate, the apex with a small pilose mucro: legs elongate: 

 anterior tibiw curved within, the apex with a small hook. 



X Sp. 1. viridis. Niger, supra parcius viridis squamosus, subtus lateribusque 



dense Jlavo-virescens. (Long. corp. 5 — 6 lin.) 

 Cu. viridis. Linne.— Stewart f! J— Ch. viridis. Steph. Catal. 183. No. 1867. 



note. 



Black, above sparingly clothed with green scales ; with the body beneath and 



sides densely clothed with yellowish -green. 

 Introduced by Stewart as an indigenous insect, but apparently without sufficient 



authority. 



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