234 Mr. J. Walton on the genus Sitona." 



five from Sclionhen* ; these are in my opinion examples or va- 

 rieties of Cure, tibialis. Dr. Germar informs me that " Cure, li- 

 neellus of Gyll. appears to be recently excluded, and that he be- 

 lieves it to be merely a small variety of Sit. crinitus." 



Hundreds, with innumerable varieties_, may be found almost 

 everywhere on the furze [Ulex europaus) in the spring and 

 autumn. 



11. Sitona erinita, Oliv., Steph., Schonh. 

 — lineella et albescens (var.). Staph. 

 Cure, macularius, Marsh., Kirb. MSS. 



This insect greatly resembles the preceding in general habit, 

 is equally variable in magnitude, but less so in the colour of the 

 scales ; the elytra are proportionably longer, of a different form, 

 and it is distinctly a less convex insect ; most generally thickly 

 clothed with dark or pale cinereous scales ; the small varieties 

 approximate very closely to the last, and are extremely liable to 

 be confounded with it ; but the longer and very conspicuous setse 

 with which it is invariably clothed will always distinguish it, in- 

 dependent of other characters. 



I have examined a long series with many varieties captured by 

 Mr. R. N. Greville in Scotland; 1 have found it plentifully in 

 Yorkshire, and in profusion amongst tares on a chalky soil at 

 Mickleham and Birch Wood in June. 



12. S. Waterhousei (Schonh. in litt.), Walton. 



Elongate, sublinear, black, sparingly clothed with cinereous 

 and silvery-gray scales. Head very broad, coarsely punctured ; 

 the front with a deep fovea and with a broad and very deep fur- 

 row, extending from the fovea to the middle of the rostrum ; the 

 vertex elevated and convex : rostrum about as long as the head, 

 and not much narrower : eyes very large, semiglobose, and ex- 

 tremely prominent. Antennae entirely testaceous. Thorax ob- 

 long, subcylindrical, slightly dilated at the sides, flat above ; very 

 coarsely and deeply punctured, somewhat rugose ; clothed at the 

 sides more or less closely with scales ; the disc sometimes gla- 

 brous. Elytra elongate, the shoulders nearly rectangular, the 

 angular points rounded, and the callous elevated, the sides 

 straight, the apex obtusely rounded ; profoundly punctate-sulcate, 

 the interstices very narrow, convex and rugulose, the second and 

 fourth from the suture distinctly elevated, and clothed more or 

 less with cinereous and silvery-white scales. Legs totally testa- 

 ceous. Length 2^ lines. 



This is a new and distinct species according to Schonherr and 

 Germar. 



I have seen only three specimens, one of which I obtained from 

 a dealer at York, who said it was found in the neighbourhood of 



