264 RHYNCHOPHORA. BRUCH1T)JE. 



stices narrow, convex, coppery-green, brassy or blue; legs black, thighs 

 brassy; body black beneath. (L. 1^-2 1.) Oaks; rather local : Epping 

 Forest, near Wanstead ; Hertford ; Raehills : 6. 



2076 cupreus L. ii. 608. — Panz. F. xx. f. 9.? — Ste. M. iv. 203. — 

 Above dull brassy, with a slightly griseous pile, beneath brassy-black : 

 elytra somewhat 4-drate, brassy, or coppery, deeply punctate-striate, inter- 

 stices transversely wrinkled; tarsi black. (L. 2^-S 1.) Rare; hedges: 

 Darenth Wood ; Epping ; Baron Wood, Cumberland : 6. 



§ C. Rostrum elongate : elytra punctate : thorax in ^ spinose. 



2077 Betulae L. ii. 611. — Don. iii. pi. 74. — Ste. M. iv. 203. — Glabrous; 

 above shining silky-green, or blue, with all intermediate tints ; beneath 

 golden- or blue-green, or blue; legs and rostrum golden-green ; forehead 

 with an impression ; elytra deeply punctured : — extremely variable in 

 tint. (L. 3tj-4il. ) On birch : metropolitan woods; Swansea; Baron 

 Wood; Scotland: 6. 



2078 Populi L. ii. 611. — Pz. F. xx. f. 7. — Ste. M. iv. 204. — Glabrous; 

 above shining brassy-green, or coppery ; beneath with the legs and ros- 

 trum violet-blue ; elytra rather deeply punctured ; tarsi and antennae 

 black; forehead with a deep furrow. (L. 2-3^1.) On aspens: Lee 

 Wood, Surrey ; Blenden, Kent ; Epping; Coombe : 6-9. 



2079 Bacchus L. ii. 611. —Don. i. pi. 24. f. 1. — Ste. M. iv. 204.— Very 

 pubescent : oblong ; shining golden-copper, with a bluish or greenish 

 tinge ; rostrum violet-black ; thorax somewhat conic in g , nearly globose 

 and spined in $ , disc coarsely punctured ; elytra deeply punctured and 

 transversely wrinkled ; tibiae brownish; tarsi and antennae black. (L. 4- 

 5 1.) Rare ; on Primus spinosus : Crayford and Birch Wood, Kent : 6. 



421 Attelabus Linn. 



2080 curculionoidcs L. ii. 619. — Ste. M. iv. 205. — Cnr. xv. pi. 710. — 

 Glabrous; black; thorax, elytra and abdomen, above bright red; elytra 

 finely punctate-striate, interstices remotely punctured ; — basal joints of 

 the antennae sometimes reddish. (L. l|-3 1.) Oak and hazel : London 

 district; Norfolk; Suffolk; Cumberland; Edinburgh district : 5-7. 



422 Apoderus Olivier. 



2081 Avellanae L. ii. 619. — Clairv. E. II. i. pi. 15. f. 1, 2. — Ste. M. iv. 

 206. — Glabrous; black; thorax, elytra, thighs, and tibiae red; elytra 

 crenate-striate : — thorax sometimes with a black streak or spot in front ; 

 and the head red, or reddish behind. (L. 3-3^ 1. ) On hazels: London 

 and Edinburgh district ; Cambridge ; Cumberland ; Swansea, &c. : 

 6-7. 



(2082 f Coryli Fab. E. ii. 416. —Ste. M. iv. 206 note. — Black; elytra 

 red, crenate-striate. (L. 3^ 1. ) Erroneously stated to be British.) 



Fam. 50. BRUCHID.E Leach. 

 ccccxxiii. Rhinomacer Ant. clavate, club loose and slender: rost. elongate, 



dilated at the tip ; head transverse ; elytra soft, somewhat linear, pubescent : 



tarsi long. 

 ccccxxiv. Choragus Ant. clavate, long; club 3-jointed ; head obscurely 



rostrated : body short, ovate cylindric : legs saltatorial. 

 (ccccxxv. Caryoborus Ant. long, serrated : head with a slight ridge : eyes 



large, notched, placed obliquely : tho. 2-sinuated behind, with acute angles; 



hinder thighs elongate, and very much thickened, pectinate-dentate 



beneath ; hinder tibiae much bent.) 

 ccccxxvi. Bruchiis Ant. filiform, compressed, or slightly thickened to the 





