CURCULIONIDiE. — PANUS. 165 



deeply punctate-striate, the interstices convex and very closely granulate- 

 coriaceous: legs rather long, moderately stout: femora incrassated, with a 

 very obscure rudimentary tooth towards the apex: antennas black, with the 

 apex fuscescent ; rather stouter in the males, and the rostrum shorter and 

 slightly incrassated in the same sex. 



Not uncommon on cherry and pear trees, as well as the sloe and 

 hazel, within the metropolitan district. 



Genus CCCXLIII. — Panus, Schonherr. 



Antennae not geniculated, 12-jointed, curved, rather stout, the basal joint reaching 

 to the eyes, clavate, and a little bent, second short, thick, suborbiculate ; third 

 smaller, obconic, four following very short and coarctate, subaequal, eighth 

 stout and broader, perfoliate ; club very large, equal to half the length of the 

 antennae, robust, subcylindric, with the apex subacuminate, composed of four 

 closely united joints. Rostrum as long as the head, rather thick, and a Httle 

 bent : eyes large, somewhat approximating : elytra subcylindric, convex, with 

 the base and apex of each rounded : legs moderate : femora unarmed. 



The immensely disproportioned pubescent club of the antennae 

 of this genus, exclusively of other discordant characters, sufficiently 

 point out the necessity of separating it from the two foregoing 

 genera. 



Sp. 1. barbicornis. Niger, subopacus, antennis inferne ferrugineis, clavd lon^ 

 gissimd nigro-fusca, thorace suprd planiusculo, foveolato, elytris nitidioribus 

 sulcata punctatis, interstitiis convexis, subtilissime strigosis. (Long. corp. 1 4 — 

 If lin.) 



Rhyn. barbicornis. Latreille. — Pa. barbicornis. Steph. Catal. 114. iVo. 1876. 



Black, somewhat opaque : head thickly, but finely, punctured : thorax above 

 somewhat flat, the anterior margin slightly elevated and a little emarginate; 

 the lateral margins very much rounded, the base narrowed, with the posterior 

 angles acute, the base with three obsolete impressions ; the disc very thickly 

 punctate, with an abbreviated smooth carina in front : elytra rather glossy, 

 sulcate, the sulci obscurely punctate, with the interstices convex, delicately 

 strigose : legs black ; tarsi piceous : antennae ferruginous beneath, with the 

 club fuscous. 



Rare : I have taken a specimen at Ripley in June : — it is found, 

 however, in various parts of the country, as I have received speci- 

 mens from Norfolk and Somersetshire. 



