298 Mr. J. Walton on the genera Pissodes, Hypera, 
6. Hyper a murina, Fab.^ Gyll., Germ., Sclidnh. 
— Pollux et elongata var., Steph. sec. ej. Mus. 
— nehulosa var., Steph. sec. ej. Man. 
— fusco-cinereus. Marsh, sec. Mus. Steph. et Kirb. 
— interruptus. Marsh, sec. Stejih. Catal. 
— dorsiger, Kirb. MSS. 
This is a larger insect than any of its congeners, and chiefly 
distinguished by having the thorax subglobose, greatly dilated 
and rounded at the sides ; the elytra elongate, nearly four times 
as long as the thorax. 
Pare ; found in damp grassy places. Plumstead, Barnes Com- 
mon, Mr. S. Stevens. 
7. H. tigrina (Bej.), Schonh. 
— elongata. Curt. MSS. 
Elongate, black, thickly clothed with cinereous and silvery 
white scales, and with white and fuscous hairs. Head short, 
convex, closely punctulated ; eyes oblong, depressed ; rostrum 
rather longer than the thorax, subcylindrical, slender, curved and 
punctulated, clothed with hair before the base in the male. An- 
tennae inserted before the middle of the rostrum, rather longer than 
the head and thorax, rufo- ferruginous, pilose ; clava oblong-ovate, 
obscure black. Thorax subdepressed, broader than long, consider- 
ably dilated, and rounded at the sides a little before the middle, 
closely and minutely punctured ; abroad stripe on each side and 
a line of silvery white scales down the middle. Elytra oblong- 
ovate, four times as long as the thorax, the shoulders prominent, 
obtusely rounded, moderately convex above, distinctly striated, 
the strise closely and minutely punctured, the interstices narrow, 
convex, transversely rugulose ; thickly covered with cinereous or 
silvery white scales, and a series of large subquadrate black spots 
alternating with white ones on the suture, and with black spots 
arranged in rows on the alternate interstices rather indistinct an- 
teriorly but distinct posteriorly. Legs long, black ; femora mo- 
derately clavate, simple, squamulose; tibiae round, pubescent; 
tarsi elongate, piceous. Length 3 lines. 
This very distinct insect may be discriminated, by having a 
longer rostrum than any other of the genus, by having the thorax 
laterally dilated before the middle, and the elytra spotted with 
black scales. 
I understood Mr. Curtis that three specimens, all nearly alike^ 
of this new British insect, were found near Hover, one of which 
I have seen in his cabinet. A single specimen was taken in the 
same locality by Mr. Marshall the latter end of J uly. 
