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 INSECTS CURCULIONINA (continued) Bagous frit, Brit. Coll. Wihtone, rare, with the preceding lutosus, Gyll. Hertford (Stephens) Anoplus plantaris, Naez. Tring Elleschus bipunctatus, L. Hastoe, once found plentifully on sallow in Brown's Lane Tychius squamulatus, Gyll. Aldbury, rare meliloti, Steph. Wihtone, not common on Melilotus ofEcinalis lineatulus, Steph. Aldbury, very rare, on Anthyllis vulneraria junceus, Reich. Tring and Aldbury tomentosus, Herbst. Baldock (Wood) pygmaeus, Bris. Boxmoor (PifFard) Miccotrogus picirostris, F. Tring Sibinia primita, Herbst. Near Bovingdon ; Felden (PifFard) Miarus campanulae, L. Aldbury, in the flowers of Campanula glomerata, on the hills near the village graminis, Gyll. Aldbury, scarce with the preceding ; Hertford (Stephens) plantarum, Germ. Aldbury, one speci- men by sweeping, probably on Cam- panula glomerata Gymnetron beccabungae, L. Miswell and Little Tring, on Veronica beccabunga melanarius, Germ. Tring, scarce, on Veronica chamasdrys in dry chalky places antirrhini, Payk. Tring and Aldbury, not uncommon, on Linaria vulgaris Mecinus pyraster, Herbst. Tring Anthonomus ulmi, De G. Tring, rare rosinae, Des Gozis. Tring, rare, in a hawthorn hedge pedicularius, L. i -. - rubi, Herbst. I Tnn f comari, Crotch. Bricket Wood (L,cvf cods) Cionus scrophulariae, L. Tring tuberculosus, Scop. Hertford (Ste- phens) thapsus, F. Aldbury, on Scrophularia nodosa hortulanus, Marsh. Tring blattariae, F. Tring; Hertford (Ste- phens) pulchellus, Herbst. Tring; Hertford (Stephens) ; Baldock (Wood) Orobitis cyaneus, L. Tring, single speci- mens have frequently occurred ; Felden (PifFard) Acalles roboris, Curtis. Kings Langley (Piffard) ; Hertford (Stephens) ptinoides, Marsh. Tring, very fre- quently found among dead beech twigs on the ground ; Felden (PifFard) ; Hertford (Stephens) CURCULIONINA (continued) Acalles turbatus, Boh. Miswell, once found sparingly in an old hedge ; Felden (PifFard) Cosliodes rubicundus, Herbst. Bovingdon, rare, once found on oaks ; Kings Langley (PifFard) quercus, F. Tring ruber, Marsh. Hastoe, rare, in Brown's Lane cardui, Herbst. Tring, common, especially in the spring quadrimaculatus, L. Tring, abundant everywhere Poophagus sisymbryii, F. Tring nasturtii, Germ. Wihtone, very rare, in refuse by the reservoir ; Baldock, found commonly (Wood) Ceuthorrhynchus assimilis, Payk. Tring setosus, Boh. Busbey (Fowler) constrictus, Marsh. Hastoe, rare, in Brown's Lane cochleariae, Gyll. Wihtone ericae, Gyll. Aldbury Common, plenti- ful ; Ashridge (PifFard) erysimi, F. Tring contractus, Marsh. Tring ; near Had- ley Wood (Newbery) chalybaeus, Germ. Tring and Aldbury quadridens, Panz. pollinarius, Forst. Tring pleurostigma, Marsh. alliaria, Bris. Boxmoor (PifFard) marginatus, Payk. Miswell, rare (rotundatus, Bris.). Boxmoor, on the railway bank (PifFard) urticae, Boh. Tring, a few specimens on Stachys sylvatica, in rather moist spot in a wood rugulosus, Herbst. Little Tring, rare, in a damp meadow melanostictus, Marsh. Wihtone, not uncommon on Mentha aquatica, at the reservoir asperifoliarum, Gyll. Tring ; Baldock (Wood) euphorbiae, Bris. Aldbury, very rare, one example on Veronica chamaedrys litura, F. Tring ; New Barnet (New- bery) trimaculatus, F. 1 Ceuthorrhynchidius floralis, Payk. Y Tring pyrrhorhynchus, Marsh. nigrinus, Marsh. Aldbury and Little Tring melanarius, Steph. Wihtone, on Na- sturtium officinale horridus, F. Tring, very local on the hills, feeding upon Cirsium arvense quercicola, Payk. Aldbury and Tring 109