228 Mr. J. Walton on the genus Sitona. 



the body, distinguish this common insect at a glance from every 

 other species. 



2. Sitona suturalis, Steph. 



Cure, rufipes, Marsh., non Linn. 



This insect very much resembles the preceding in general 

 habit, but may at once be recognised by having the thorax and 

 elytra entirely without hairs, and from every other species by its 

 subdepressed eyes. 



Unknown to Schonherr and Germar until I sent specimens to 

 them. 



Local and not often met with ; I once found it plentifully in a 

 damp meadow in Yorkshire. Taken abundantly by Mr. S. Stevens 

 and myself amongst grass in a moist field on the west side of 

 Turner^s Wood, Hampstead, in June ; it also occurs in Hackney 

 Marshes. 



§ B. Eyes moderately prominent. 



3. S. RegensteinensiSj Herbst, Germ., Schonh., Steph. Manual. 



— Spartii, femoralis e.t pleuritica, Steph. Illustr. 

 Cure. Spartii, Kirb. MSS. 



Dr. Germar concurs with Mr. Stephens in referring this in- 

 sect to Cure. Regensteinensis of Herbst *, and M. Schonherr to 

 Cure. Spartii of Kirby f, with which it is distinctly synonymous ; 

 Cure. Ulicisj referred to Kirby (MSS.), is not to be found in his 

 manuscript. I possess specimens from M. Chevrolat of Paris, 

 named S. Regensteinensis. 



Excessively variable in size (length \^ — 3 lines), but distin- 

 guished from all the other species by having the thorax consi- 

 derably dilated and rounded at the sides, and remarkably nar- 

 rowed behind, with the elytra setose. 



•Found abundantly on the broom and furze in the spring and 

 autumn. 



4. S. sulcifronsy Thunb., Germ., Schonh., Steph. Man, 

 Cure, tibialis, Gyll., Steph. Illustr. 



— chloropus, Marsh. ? 



— subaurata, Kirb. MSS., Steph. 



— pleuriticus, Kirb. MSS. 



My British specimens were referred by Schonherr and Germar 

 to the first name, and an insect sent by Gyllenhal in the foreign 

 collection of Kirby is identical. Mr. Stephens has in his pos- 

 session two examples of Cure, chloropus from the collection of 

 Marsham, one of which is the true Cure, tibialis of Herbst, and 

 the other is Sitona sulcifrons of Thunb. j the latter is accurately 



^^^^ * Ent. Zeit. Stettin, no. 5. p. 99, 1842. 

 t Schonh. Syn. Ins. vii. p. 455. 



