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1779 Stephensi Sch. S. (Cur.) iii. 412. — Ty. tomentosus Ste. M. iv. 56. 

 — Black, clothed with pale down, tinted with ochreous on the thorax, 

 legs and antennas testaceous-red; rostrum pitchy at the tip. (L. 1^ 1.) 

 In corn-fields : London district : 4-6. 



1780 canescens Marsh, i. 259. — Ste. M. iv. 56. — Pitchy, clothed with 

 hoary down : eyes black ; head, a narrow dorsal line, and the sides of the 

 thorax somewhat ashy ; suture of elytra dusky, or black ; legs and antennas 

 pitchy-red. (L, 1^1.) Infields: London district ; Devon: 5-6. 



1781 parvula Kirby. — Ste. M. iv. 57. — Black; sparingly clothed with 

 olivaceous down ; base of antennas red-brown ; legs and antennas wholly 

 red. (L. 1 1.) Fields: London district; Suffolk: 6. 



367 Miccotrogus Schonherr. 



1782 picirostris Fab. E. ii. 449. — Mi. cinerascens Ste. M. iv. 57. — Slen- 

 der; dusky, with ashy down, beneath paler; thighs blackish; tibias and 

 tarsi dull red; club of the antennas fuscous. (L. 1^ 1.) Corn-fields: Rip- 

 ley: 1-6. 



1783 lineatulus Kirby. — Ste. M. iv. 57. — Dusky-black, with lead-coloured 

 down ; sides of the thorax and a narrow dorsal line pale ; elytra with the 

 suture white : legs and antennas red. (L. l^l.) Hedges: New Forest; 

 Devonshire : 6. 



368 Sibinia Germar. 



1784 Arenarias Kirby. — Ste. M. iv. 58. — Black, clothed with grisescent 

 pubescence above, and whitish beneath ; elytra with a large coarctate 

 dusky-reddish patch at the base of the suture, edged behind with whitish ; 

 legs and antennas dull testaceous. (L. 1^ 1.) In sandy districts: New 

 Forest ; Devonshire : 6. 



1785 primita Herbst. C. vi. 104. pi. 66. f. 8. — Ste. M. iv. 58. — Black; 

 clothed above with a rusty-golden down, beneath with whitish; elytra with 

 a common fuscous blotch in the middle of the back, edged with whitish 

 behind; legs dusky, tibias and tarsi reddish; antennas pitchy, club black. 

 (L. 1-1-11.) Hedges: London district : 6. 



1786 Viscarias L. ii. 609. — Ste. M. iv. 58. — Black, densely clothed with 

 greenish-ashy down above, beneath with whitish : thorax produced into 

 an angle in the middle of the base ; legs black ; antennas pitchy at the 

 base. (L. l£l.) Chalky districts ; Ripley; Brighton: 6-7. 



369 Orchestes ffliger. 

 § A. Hinder thighs denticulated beneath. 



1787 Quercus L. ii. 609. — Ste. M. iv. 59. — Cu. rufus Don. xi. pi. 38 9. 

 f. 3. — Testaceous-red, pubescent : eyes and breast black ; seutel. whitish ; 

 elytra with a large triangular, common, ashy-pubescent blotch at the base ; 

 4 anterior thighs with a minute spine in the middle ; hinder pair with a 

 double row of 6 or 7 spines. (L. 1^-2^ 1.) 



Var. Cu. depressus Marsh, i. 262. — Ste. M. iv. 61. — Brown-black; 

 antennas, tibias, and tarsi reddish ; rostrum red. On oaks : widely distri- 

 buted throughout Britain : 5-6. 



1788 scutellaris Fab. E. ii. 495. — Ste. M. iv. 59. — Cu. rufus Don. vii. 

 pi. 249. f. 1. — Oblong; rusty-red; eyes, tip of the rostrum, thorax 

 beneath breast and abdomen black ; seutel. clothed with whitish pile : 

 anterior thighs unarmed, hinder pair with a single tooth in the middle. 

 (L. 1^-1.) Alder and hazel: Coombe and Darenth Woods; Carlisle; 

 Swansea : 5-6. 



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