218 RHYNCHOPHORA. CURCULIONID^I. 



1683 collina Gytl. iii. 209. — Black, flattish ; rather densely clothed with 

 griseous pile : rostrum slightly bent ; thorax punctured ; elytra striated, 

 interstices finely punctured ; antenna stout, short, pitchy ; thighs clavate, 

 of £ with an acute tooth, of ^ with a small one, nearly obsolete in anterior 

 legs. (L. \\- lj-l.) Yorkshire: 6. 



1684 tricolor Marsh, i. 259. — Ste. M. iv. 15. — Black, with an ashy down, 

 brightest on the middle of the thorax behind ; elytra rusty-red, base, su- 

 ture, and 2 oblique bands black ; base of antennae, tibia?, and tarsi rusty- 

 red : elytra sometimes black, with a red tip. (L. 1^ 1.) Grassy places: 

 London district ; Norfolk ; Suffolk ; N. Wales ; Yorkshire : 6. 



347 Miarus Schonherr. 



1685 Campanula: L. ii. 607. — Herbst. C. vi. pi. 70. f. 15. — Ste. M. iv. 

 15. — Black; clothed with ashy-white hairs, which are disposed in lines 

 on the elytra ; thighs simple : ^ with penult, segment of abdomen im- 

 pressed and armed with 2 short teeth. (L. 1^-lfl.) On fi\ of Campanula 

 rotundifolia : near London ; Norfolk ; Swansea ; New Forest ; Carlisle, 

 &c. : 6-7. 



1686 Graminis Gyll. iii. 210. — Ste. M. iv. 16. — Black; clothed with ashy 

 down, disposed in lines on the elytra ; rostrum longish, bent, cylindric : 

 legs rather long ; thighs clavate, hinder pair with an obscure dentation ; 

 antennae slender. (L. 1^-1^1.) Grassy places: Ripley; Hertford; 

 Cambridge : 6-7. 



1687 Linariae Pz. F. xxvi. f. 18. — Ste. M. iv. 16. — Black; sparingly 

 clothed with ashy down ; rostrum stoutish, very much bent ; thorax with a 

 faint dorsal ridge ; elytra punctate-striate ; thighs clavate, hinder pair 

 slightly toothed. (L. 1^1.) On Antirrhinum Linaria : Norfolk: 6. 



348 Cionus Clairville. 



1688 Scrophulariae L. ii. 614. — Don. ii. pi. 60. — Ste. M. iv. 17. — 

 Blackish-brown ; thorax entirely and breast densely clothed with a yellowish 

 down : elytra punctate-striate, alternate interstices raised and tessellated 

 with black and white, and the suture with 2 large black satiny spots, with 

 white ones attached; tarsi reddish. (L. 2|-3 1.) On Scrophularia nodosa, 

 Verbascum Thapsus, &c. ; gardens : London district ; Bath ; Swansea ; 

 Harrowby : 6-8. 



1689 Verbasci Fab. E. ii. 479. — Ste. M. iv. 18. — Deep black ; sides of the 

 thorax and the breast clothed with a griseous down ; elytra as in the fore- 

 going species, but the white replaced by ash-colour, and the sutural spots 

 small. (L. 2-2^1.) Verbasci, &c. : Hertford; Ripley; Battersea fields ; 

 Swansea, &c. : 7-9. 



1 690 Thapsi Fab. E. ii. 479. — Herbst. C. vi. pi. 73. f. 2. — Ste. M. iv. 

 18. — Fuscous-brown, clothed throughout with a greenish-ashy pubescence : 

 elytra striated, obsoletely tessellated with somewhat denuded spots on the 

 alternate interstices, the suture with 2 simple black spots ; tarsi, and some- 

 times the anterior tibiae, reddish. (L. 2\ 1.) 



Var. ? Cu. hortulanus Fill i. 202. — Ste. M. iv. 18. — Clothed with a 

 paler down, and the elytra obscurely tessellated with dusky. On Scro- 

 phularia, &c. : Hertford ; Gravesend ; Northfleet ; Ripley ; Swansea, &c. : 

 6-7. 



1691 Blattariae Clairv. E. H. i. 66. pi. 3. f. 1, 2. — Ste. M. iv. 18. — 

 Fuscous-brown, clothed throughout with ashv-griseous down ; the middle 

 of the thorax brown behind : elytra striated, alternate interstices tessellated 

 with brown and ashy, suture with 2 large black spots, the anterior edged 

 with brown ; near the scutellum clouded with brown and 2 black dots ; legs 



