BRUCHID^. — PLATYRHINUS. 209 



with a lobate snowy spot, and within with a series of black silken tufts ; legs 

 annulated with snowy and brown pile. 



Rare : specimens have occasionally been found in the vicinity of 

 Daren th- wood, and near Gravesend, and also in other parts of the 

 country. " Kensington-gardens."— lfar*7iam MSS. " Gussage, 



Dorset."" — Mr. him 



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Genus CCCLIII. — Platyrhinus, CZazmZZ^. 



Antennas rather short, inserted beneath the middle of the rostrum, the two basal 

 joints short, stout; the two following longer, obconic ; the four next some- 

 what rounded ; the remainder large, compressed, somewhat remote and 

 forming a triarticulate club. Rostrum perpendicular, broad, oblong-quadrate, 

 slightly truncate : eyes lateral, rounded, prominent : thorax subquadrate, a 

 little narrowed in front, with the sides dilated into a somewhat bidentate 

 lobe beyond the middle, and an interrupted subtransverse elevated carina 

 within the base : elytra oblong, linear, flat above, and covering the anus : legs 

 short : tarsi slightly elongate. 



Platyrhinus differs from Anthribus not only by the diversity in 

 the structure of its antennae, but in the form and width of the 

 rostrum, the eyes being entire, the thorax of dissimilar form, &c. 



Sp. 1. latirostris. Oblongus^ niger, r astro rugoso, fronte elytrorum apice ab- 



domineque cinereo-pilosis. (Long. Corp. 5 — 65 lin.) 

 Cu. latirostris. Bonsdorf. — Don. x. pi. 348./. 1. — PI. latirostris. Steph. Catal. 



192. No. 1988. 



Oblong, black : rostrum rugose, ashy-white, with the apex black : thorax un- 

 equal, deeply wrinkled and punctured : scutellum ashy : elytra black, with 

 interrupted punctate striae, the apex clothed with a dense ashy pile, in which 

 are two black dots, and sometimes two or three fuscescent strigas : abdomen 

 white, with the sides black : legs black, variegated with ashy-pile. 



Local ; but occasionally found in plenty in the districts it inhabits : 

 — it frequents the Sphseria Fraxinea, and is found upon the trunks 

 of the ash, alder, birch, &c. " Occasionally found on ash-trees 

 (near Swansea), not common." — L. W. DiHwijn, Esq. " Bath, in 

 Sphserea Fraxinea, May, 1830."" — C. C. Babington, Esq. " Near 

 Bristol."— G. Waring, Esq. '.' Salishuvy.'"— Mr. Ingpen. "Netley." 

 —Rev. F. W. Hope. 



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