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black. The eyes are very prominent. In some varieties the shape is 

 more elongate and parallel, and in others the bands of colour are more 

 defined than in ordinary specimens. 



It is very common on furze all over the kingdom.* 



S. LiNEELLTJS, Gyll., lus. Succ, iii., p. 281 ; Schon. ; Allard. 



This insect is iacluded in Mr. Crotch's catalogue of British Cole- 

 op tera. According to Allard, it appears to have considerable likeness 

 to small specimens of crinitus, differing from that species as follows : — 

 the eyes are less prominent ; the thorax is usually more dilated in the 

 middle, with its punctuation (though strong) finer and closer ; the 

 elytra are slightly contracted towards the base, thence a little broader 

 to the middle, more distinctly and strongly punctured, with the striae 

 moi'e deeply impressed, the interstices being a little convex. The upper 

 surface is brown (except the scutellum, which is white,) with a white 

 spot, more or less prolonged, at the origin of the 5th, 6th, and 7tli in- 

 terstices. The two or three last interstices, and the under-side, are also 

 white. Lastly, instead of the erect white bristles of crinitus, the pre- 

 sent species has merely some small and extremely short hairs at the 

 hinder extremity of the elytra. M. Allard believes this insect to be 

 thoroughly boreal, having ordy seen it twice ; on the first occasion from 

 Siberia, and on the second from Sweden. 



I have certainly never seen any insect answering to this descrip- 

 tion ; the specimens occasionally seen in collections under the name of 

 lineellus being always vars. of tibialis. Mr. Walton remarks that he 

 has carefully examined two foreign specimens from Gyllenhal himself, 

 fotu' from the collection of Billberg, and five from Schonherr, and that 

 they were aU, in his opinion, examples or varieties of tibialis, with 

 which I opine that so close an observer could not possibly have con- 

 founded the insect above characterized. He also adds that Dr. Germar 

 had informed him that he believed lineellus to be a small var. of crinitus. 



S. Waterhousei, Walton. 



setosus, Redt. 



In the extreme prominence of its eyes, this species bears some 

 analogy to S. camhricus ; from which, however, it may be readily dis- 

 tinguished by its lighter colour, more parallel thorax and elytra, and 



* .S. languidus, Schiin., found in Austria, is closely allied to the form striatelliL* of tibialit, but is 

 narrower, the thorax ia larger behind than in front, and with coarser punctuation ; the head is more 

 deeply sulcated, and the elytra more strongly punctate-striate, the striee being more evident at the apex 

 of the elytra. 



S. arcticoUit, Schon., has been taken near Paris; it also is allied to tibialis, but, differs in having 

 the forehead and rostrum more strongly excavated, and the thorax smaller, almost quadrate, black, 

 nearly gcaleleas, and very strongly and rugosely punctured. 



