228 RHYNCHOPHORA. — CURCULIONIDiE. 



oblique fovea on each side; suture with a whitish spot at the base; legs 

 testaceous red : joints and tarsi dusky. (L. 1^1.) On water-dock, &c. : 

 London district ; Newcastle : 5-6. 



364 Anoplus Schonherr. 



1771 plantaris Ncezin. Act. Hal. 1794. 270. — Ste. M. iv. 52. — Black; 

 somewhet glossy ; head and thorax punctured, the latter with a faint 

 dorsal channel ; elytra deeply crenate-striate, interstices smooth ; scutel. 

 whitish ; body punctured beneath, sides of the breast with a dense whitish 

 pile ; antennae with 2 basal joints testaceous ; base of rostrum punctate. 

 (L. 1 1.) 



Var. Rh. nitidulus Wilkin. ? — Ste. M. iv. 53. — Scutel. black ; antennas 

 pitchy at the base. 



Var. Rh. atratus Wilkin. ? — Ste. M. iv. 53. — Scutel. and antenna? en- 

 tirely deep black. On birch and alder: Coombe and Darenth Woods; 

 Black Hall Wood, Cumberland : 5-6. 



365 Amalus Schonherr. 



1772 scortillum Herbst. C. vi. 418. pi. 92. f. 13. — Ste. M. iv. 53 



Black ; with whitish scales beneath ; elytra deeply punctate-striate, the tip 

 red, the suture with a white patch of scales at the base : legs red. (L. 1 1.) 

 Grassy places : Battersea fields ; Ripley : 6. 



1773 castaneus Wilkin. ? — Ste. M. iv. 54. — Pitchy-red; whitish beneath: 

 elytra punctate-striate, pale chestnut-red, with the tip paler, suture con- 

 colorous at the base; legs red. (L. 1 1.) Grassy places: London dis- 

 trict and Norfolk : 5-6. 



366 Tychius Germar. 

 § A. Thighs toothed. 



1774 5-punctatus L. ii. 614. — Ste. M. iv. 54. pi. xx. f. 3. — Black; 

 clothed above with purplish-gold scales, beneath snowy ; thorax with a 

 snowy- white dorsal line : elytra with the suture and 2 spots white ; thighs 

 pitchy-black; tibia?, tarsi, and antenna? dull red (L. 2^1.) South Creek, 

 Norfolk : 6. 



1775 venustus Fab. E. ii. 456. — Herbst. C. vi. pi. 71. f. 2. — Ste. M. 

 iv. 55. — Black, with ashy scales above and white beneath : thorax and 

 elytra more or less striped with white ; thighs slightly toothed, pitchy ; 

 tibia?, tarsi, antenna?, and tip of rostrum dull red. (L. 1^-2 1. ) 



Var. Cu. nervosus Marsh, i. 282. — Ste. M.Ax. 55. — Clothed with griseous 

 scales ; legs and rostrum wholly testaceous-red. On the broom : Darenth 

 and Coombe Woods ; Norfolk ; Suffolk ; Swansea : 5-6. 



§ B. Thighs not toothed. 



1776 Meliloti Kirby. — Ste. M. iv. 55. — Pitchy-red; densely clothed above 

 with yellowish down ; beneath whitish : thighs dusky ; rostrum pitchy. 

 (L. 1} 1.) On the melilot : London district ; Suffolk: 5-6. 



1777 flavicollis Kirby. — Ste. M. iv. 56. — Pitchy-red; thorax clothed with 

 a yellowish down, elytra with griseous, the edges of the former somewhat 

 ashy ; legs and antenna? wholly testaceous ; rostrum pitchy. (L. 1^ 1.) In 

 grassy places : London district ; Suffolk : 6. 



1778 tomentosus Herbst. C. vi. 278. pi. 81. f. 7. — Ty. picirostris — Ste. 

 M. iv. 56. — Pitchy-black, clothed above with an uniform glossy silken 

 olivaceous down, beneath ashy. white; legs, antenna?, and tip of the suture 

 red (L. l£l. ) In corn fields, on Trifolium pratense, &c. : London dis- 

 trict ; Ripley ; Suffolk ; Swansea : 4-6. 



