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A. varians is very distinct, the body being scarlet, with very 

 scanty pubescence, and apparently almost glabrous, and the head and 

 rostrum being black ; the latter is very smooth and shining ; the thorax 

 is very closely punctured ; on the continent the colour appears to vary 

 very much, and is sometimes quite black ; the species is found on the 

 Scotch fir in several districts in Scotland ; it appears to be exclusively 

 a northern insect ; it will be found standing as A. puhescens in some 

 of the older collections. 



A. ruhi is at once known by its shape, black colour, and long 

 slender rostrum and antennae ; the anterior femora are very feebly 

 toothed : immature varieties have the elytra fuscous (v. brunneij^entiis, 

 Curtis) ; the species is common on JRubus and Rosa. 



A. comari is much smaller than A. rubi, of which it has been 

 considered a variety ; it may, however, be known, apart from its size, 

 by having the thorax less nai'rowed in front, the first joint of the 

 funiculus of the antennae distinctly shorter, and nearly as broad as 

 long, and the femora more strongly dilated in the middle, and abruptly 

 narrowed before apex ; the insect occurs locally on Comarum palustre, 

 and not on Ruhi or Eosce, like the preceding species. 



A. hritannus rests on three specimens " taken by Mr. Doubleday 

 in Herefordshire." Mr. iiye says that " its entirely reddish-ferru- 

 ginous colour, short dull rostrum, feeble femoral teeth, and small size 

 will distinguish it from any other of its genus ;" according, however, 

 to Walton himself it is 31 mm. in length, and from his remarks {I. c, 

 p. 106) it appears very probable that the specimens were small 

 liedicularius. 



The following is a description of the new British species^ A. 

 RosinoB ; I had had specimens separated in my collection for a long 

 time, and sent one to M. Bedel, who returned it as this species ; it is 

 most closely allied to A. tilmi, much more so than to A. pedicularius, 

 but I have found it on hedges in company with the latter; it is a very 

 small species. 



A. EosiN^, Des Gozis. 



Oval, rather convex, of the form of A. ulmi, and with the sculpture of A. 

 Chevrolati ; size, small ; colour, varying from reddisli-brown to ferruginous, rostrum 

 almost, or entirely, black ; antennae and legs ferruginous, femora usually dark in the 

 middle ; elytra with a whitish transverse band, which is wider towards sides and 

 narrowed and interrupted at suture ; this band appears to be often abraded ; ros- 

 trum elongate, cylindrical, almost straight, and rather dull, at all events behind ; 

 thorax transverse, slightly rounded behind ; scutellum oblong ; elytra flat at base, 

 convex behind, witli a well marked elevation at the base of the third interstice ; 



