BRITISH BEETLES. 
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greater part are winged, and have the scutelluui more 
or less distinct. 
Erirrhinus (sometimes divided into two genera, — 
Notaris, wherein, amongst other characters, the femora 
are unarmed ; and Dorytomus , wherein they have a 
strong tooth on the under side) comprises several 
small common species, mostly found in wet places or 
on willows, poplars, &c. The rostrum iiJt all these is 
elongate and arched, and they are usually yellowish or 
dull brown in colour, slightly variegated with ill- 
defined lighter spots. Their larvae are chiefly found 
on water-plants, those of E. fcstucx (not uncommon 
on the towing-path near Hammersmith) living in the 
stems of Scirpus, of which it devours tho pith. 
Those of another species ( E . vorax, common in the 
perfect state on poplars, upon which it may be de- 
tected lurking in chinks of the bark, and remarkable 
for the great length o;f tho front legs in the male) 
have been found in the pods of laburnum, feeding on 
the seeds ; and the larva of a third (E. txniatus ) lives 
in the catkins of the sallow, which it mines for their 
entire length, and forms a cocoon for itself with the 
silky fibres peculiar to tho seeds of that tree. 
The species of Anthonomus, in which the rostrum is 
slender and usually long, the eyes very prominent, 
and the prosternum very short, are small, moderately 
convex, and sometimes adorned with short variegated 
pubescence of a pinkish-grey tone relieved by a darker 
band. Some of them are well known to commit great 
havoc upon apples and pears, the female insect boring 
a holo with her slender rostrum into the young buds, 
and then depositing an egg into it, the larva proceed- 
ing from which subsists upon the young blossom (and 
