398 Mr. J. Walton on the genera Pissodes, Hypera, ^c. 



6. Hypera murina, Fab.j Gyll., Germ., Schonh. 



— Pollux et elongata var., Steph. sec. ej. Mus. 



— nebulosavar., Steph. sec. ej. Man. 



— fusco-cinereus. Marsh, sec. Mus. Steph. et Kirb. 



— interruptus. Marsh, sec. Stej)h. Catal. 



— dorsiger,K.\ib. MSS. 



This is a larger insect than any of its congeners, and chiefly 

 distinguished by having the thorax subglobose, greatly dilated 

 and rounded at the sides ; the elytra elongate, nearly four times 

 as long as the thorax. 



Rare ; found in damp grassy places. Plumstead, Barnes Com- 

 mon, Mr. S. Stevens. 



7. //. tigrina (Dcj.), Schonh. 



— elongata. Curt. MSS. 



Elongate, black, thickly clothed with cinereous and silvery 

 white scales, and with white and fuscous hairs. Head short, 

 convex, closely punctulated ; eyes oblong, depressed ; rostrum 

 rather longer than the thorax, subcylindrical, slender, carved and 

 punctulated, clothed with hair before the base in the male. An- 

 tennse inserted before the middle of the rostrum, rather longer than 

 the head and thorax, rufo- ferruginous, pilose ; clava oblong-ovate, 

 obscure black. Thorax subdepressed, broader than long, consider- 

 ably dilated, and rounded at the sides a little before the middle, 

 closely and minutely punctured ; a broad stripe on each side and 

 a line of silvery white scales down the middle. Elytra oblong- 

 ovate, four times as long as the thorax, the shoulders prominent, 

 obtusely rounded, moderately convex above, distinctly striated, 

 the strise closely and minutely punctured, the interstices narrow, 

 convex, transversely rugulose ; thickly covered with cinereous or 

 silvery white scales, and a series of large subquadrate black spots 

 alternating with white ones on the suture, and with black spots 

 arranged in rows on the alternate interstices rather indistinct an- 

 teriorly but distinct posteriorly. Legs long, black ; femora mo- 

 derately clavate, simple, squamulose; tibise round, pubescent; 

 tarsi elongate, piceous. Length 3 lines. 



This very distinct insect may be discriminated, by having a 

 longer rostrum than any other of the genus, by having the thorax 

 laterally dilated before the middle, and the elytra spotted with 

 black scales. 



I understood Mr. Curtis that three specimens, all nearly alike, 

 of this new British insect, were found near Dover, one of which 

 I have seen in his cabinet. A single specimen was taken in the 

 same locality by Mr. Marshall the latter end of July. 



