180 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



interstices rather flat. Male with the rostrum shorterj stouter^ and less 

 curved. 



Rare : I have taken it within the metropolitan district, at Ripley. 

 " JSouthend." — Mr. Waterhouse. 



Sp. 41. vicinum. Atrum, subpilosum, antennis totis nigris, fronte punciatS, 



thorace postice lined exavato, coleoptris subglohosis. (Long. corp. Ij lin.) 

 Ap. vicinum. Kirbi/. — Linn. Trans, ix. pL 1. /. 3. Steph. Catal. 186. No. 1916. 



Black, somewhat pilose and obscure : head rather short; punctate between the 

 eyes : rostrum rather long, filiform^ slightly bent, with the base a little 

 thickened: antennae black : eyes prominent : thorax ^Aor^, punctured, with a 

 very short and scarcely visible impressed line before the scutellum : coleoptra 

 oblong-globose, deeply striate, the strise punctate, with the interstices rather flat. 



Female ? with the rostrum longer : thorax broader and elytra more gibbous, 

 with the surface more pubescent. 



Rare : I possess one specimen from the Marshamian collection, 

 and one that 1 caught in June, 1827, at Ripley. 



* * With the thorax subglobose. 



Sp. 42. Hookeri. Atrum, obscuriusculum, thorace globoso. (Long. corp. \\ lin.) 

 Ap. Hookeri. Kirby.—Linn. Trans, ix. pi. \. f. 16. Steph. Catal. 186. No. 

 1917. 



Black, with a very delicate pubescence : head very short, and rather smooth be- 

 tween the eyes : rostrum moderate, a little thickened behind the antennae, 

 which are moderate: eyes rather depressed: thorax globose, very much punc- 

 tulated, with a rather obsolete impressed line behind : coleoptra rather oblong, 

 in certain lights obscurely tinted with greenish, punctate-striate, with the 

 interstices flat. 



Apparently very rare in England : it has been taken in Norfolk, 

 and in the New Forest. 



2. Antennae near the middle of the rostrum. 



* Coleoptra subglobose. 



Sp. 43. Pisi. Atrum, piloso-subincanum, coleoptris globosis sulcatis, thorace 



canaliculato. (Long. corp. if lin.) 

 At. Pisi. Fabricius.—Ap. Pisi. Steph. Catal. 187. No. 1918. — Ap. striatum. 



Kirby. — Linn. Trans, ix.pl. I.f. 10. 



Black, with an obscure whitish pile : rostrum moderate, rather shining, finely 

 punctured: antennae moderate : eyes slightly prominent: thorax punctulate, 

 with an impressed dorsal line, narrower than the coleoptra, which are globose, 

 deeply sulcafe, the sulci punctured, with the interstices rather flat. 



