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tips; sometimes serrated: head deflexed, slightly produced in front : eyes 



lunate : tho. lobed behind : elytra oblong-quadrate, 

 ccccxxvii. Brachytarsus Ant. short ; abruptly clavate, club 3-jointed : 



rostrum short, broad : eyes entire : tho. transverse, hinder angles acute : 



body short, ovate : tarsi short, stout, 

 ccccxxviii. Phloeobius Ant. clavate, slender, elongated; club obtuse, long: 



eyes prominent, notched ; rostrum short, with the tip notched : body ovate : 



legs long, slender, tarsi elongate, slender, 

 ccccxxix. Tropideres Ant. longish, clavate, 2 basal joints elongate ; club 



abruptly thickened, slightly compressed : rostrum short, broad, flat, perpen- 

 dicular : eyes entire : body oblong, 

 ceccxxx. Platyrhikus Ant. rather long, clavate ; 2 basal joints short ; club 



abruptly thickened, compressed : rostrum broad, truncate, perpendicular:' 



eyes prominent, entire : body oblong, 

 ccccxxxi. Anthribus Ant. of $ longer than the body, of <j> short, 2 basal 



joints short ; club narrow, acute : rostrum short, broad, deflexed, deeply 



notched at the tip : eyes notched : body oblong : elytra nearly covering the 



abdomen : tarsi elongate. 



423 Rhinomacer Fabricius. 



2083 Attelaboides Fab. E. ii. 428. — Ste. M. iv. 207. pi. xxi. f. 3. — Ob- 

 long; black, with a brassy tinge, densely clothed with an ashy or yellowish 

 pile ; antennae and legs pale testaceous ; elytra irregularly punctured. 

 (L. 3 1.) Hedges: Inverness and its vicinity: 6. 



424 Choragus Kirby. 



2084 Sheppardi Lin. Tr. (Kirby) xii. pi. xxii. f. 14. _ Ste. M. iii. 343. — 

 Pitchy-brown, or black, punctured ; slightly pubescent : elytra striated ; 

 legs and antenna? red. (L. ^ 1.) 



Var. Ch. niger Kirby. — Ste. M. iii. 343. — Deep black ; the legs and an- 

 tennae pitchy-brown. On willows : Barham, Suffolk ; Ripley ; New- 

 market Heath : 6-7. 



(425 Caryoborus Schonherr.) 



(2085 cruciger. — Elliptic ; black, with a delicate griseous pile above, and a 

 dense whitish-ashy one beneath, and on the pygidium and base of hinder 

 thighs : elytra flat, with a white X on the base of the suture ; 4 anterior 

 legs very pale testaceous ; posterior black, their thighs with 1 broad and 

 4 acute teeth. (L. 2-2^1.) In red West India seeds: evidently im- 

 ported. ) 



426 Bruchus Geoffroy. 

 § A. Hinder thighs toothed. 1. Thorax with a lateral tooth. 



2086 Pisi L. ii. 604.— Wood. i. pi. 13. ? — Ste. M. iv. 213. — Black; 

 thorax with a tooth on each side : elytra striated, varied with some gri- 

 Beous spots and obscure transverse streaks ; anterior tibia?, apex of the 

 middle pair, all the tarsi, and the 4 basal joints of the antenna?, red ; 

 hinder thighs with an acute spine. (L. 2^-2^ 1. ) Among peas : London 

 and its environs : 5-7. 



2087 rufimanus Sch. S. (Cur.) i. 58. — Br. Pisi Pz. F. lxvi. f. 14.?— Ob- 

 long-ovate ; black : thorax with a snowy spot before the scutellum ; elytra 

 spotted with white ; base of the antennae and the anterior legs testa- 

 ceous-red ; hinder thighs with an obsolete, obtuse tooth. (L. 1^-2 1.) 

 London district : 6. 



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