570 APPENDIX. 
accepted, and prepared a box, which was taken by Mr. Rodwell, along 
with a letter, which is placed first in Mr. Kirby’s packet of mine of 1808, 
and which it is necessary to give here to make his reply intelligible. 
“ Drypool, Hull, 26th August, 1805. 
“Sir,— Your friend Mr. Rodwell, knowing me to be a smatterer in that 
branch of natural history to the advancement of which, in Britain, you have so 
largely contributed, told me the other day that he was about to visit your 
neighbourhood, and said he would be glad to convey to you any duplicates of 
insects I might have, that I judged might possibly be new to you. Iembraced 
his offer with pleasure, and I have accordingly sent a few insects which I haye 
reason to think scarce, or not described in ‘Entomologia Britannica.’ If they 
are already known to you, as perhaps the major part are, I must beg you to 
take the will for the deed. Such as are new, if any be so, I request your accept- 
ance of, as a small return for the high gratification I have derived from the 
perusal of your admirable papers in the ‘Linnean Transactions,’ and the intro- 
duction to your ‘Monograph of English Bees,’ From that work itself I have 
not been able to derive the advantage which I have no doubt I shall reap from 
it when I have made a greater progress in entomology. At present, the order 
Coleoptera, to the investigation of which Mr. Marsham’s excellent work, in- 
cluding so many of your discoveries, affords such facility, exclusively engages 
my attention. But I proceed to my immediate object, which is, to make a few 
short remarks on the insects I send. 
“No. 1. is a Curculio belonging to Section A, b.** in E. B., which I do not 
find described there. I found it the other day in great numbers, feeding upon 
young oak trees, the leaves of which it corrodes in the same manner as Chryso- 
mela vitelline, &c. do those of willows. From its habitat, it should be C. Ser- 
rugineus of E. B.; but as neither its head, rostrum, nor knees are black, it 
cannot be that, and there appears to me no other in the section with which it at 
all accords. C. rufus I have, which is very different. May it not be C. Betu- 
leti of Panzer’s ‘Entomologia Germanica?’ which is the more likely, as I did 
find a few of the same insect upon Betulus Alnus, in the neighbourhood of the 
oaks upon which it chiefly was. It also strikes me that it, as well as Panzer’s C. 
Betuleti, may possibly be C. Quercus of Linné, if that properly belongs to the 
Saltatorii section, which Fabricius seems to believe by his synonyming it with 
his C. Viminalis, for I do not believe that C. Quercus of Linné, which is ‘pallide 
flavus,’ even though belonging to this section, can be synonymous with C. 
Viminalis, which if that be, and doubtless it is, C. rufus of E. B., is of a rufous 
colour, with the fore part of the abdomen, as well as the eyes, black. Fabricius 
appears to me extremely lax in his definition of colour; at least, if the insects 
he describes from be of the same colour as English ones. Neither C. Alni nor 
C. Viminalis are of a testaceous colour. C. No. 1., when first caught, has, in a 
certain light, a large triangular spot at the base of the elytra, of a lighter shade 
than the rest, 
“No, 2., which has also incrassated hind thighs, appears to me undescribed in 
E. B.: indeed if I am correct in my supposition, it does not belong to any 
section there; for, as far as I can see with the deepest magnifier I possess, its 
antenne are not broken, but entire, though of this, owing to its minuteness, I 
am not positive. However that may be, I see no Curculio in Section A. b** of 
E. B. which, like this, is wholly black, with reddish antenne. I found it on 
some species of willow, and then on Mespilus Oxyacantha. 
“No. 3. is doubtless Curculio variabilis of Fabricius and Panzer. Whether 
Mr. Marsham had not seen it, or he deemed it a variety of C. nigrirostris, [know 
not, but it is not described in B. B, That it isa variety of that I can scarcely 
believe, though Paykull, on his usual plan of making as many varieties as pos- 
sible, chooses to considerit so, Isent lately to Mr, Marsham, who has honoured 
