iOG INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



Habitat ad vias vel sub lapidibus in locis inferioribus Maderse Portusque Sancti, praesertim circa urbem 

 Fiinchalensemj passim. 



S. elongate and parallel, black, and almost free from scales above (though closely beset with cinereous 

 ones beneath), but rather densely clothed with pile (which is exceedingly short and decumbent 

 on the elytra, though longer, robuster and often partially erect on the head and prothorax) of a 

 dark hue, but which has more or less of a subcinereous and slightly fulvescent tinge when viewed 

 obliquely. Rostrum as in the S. latipennis, but with its central canal wder and much deeper. 

 Eyes large, rounded and exceedingly convex, being more prominent than in any of the other 

 Sitonee here described. Prothorax very roughly and deeply punctured; considerably rounded at 

 the sides, — the widest part being about the middle ; with its front margin a Uttle raised ; and 

 generally with a few paler scales in the centre of its base (adjoining the scutellum, which is itself 

 always beset with conspicuously pale scales). Elytra rather deeply punctate-striated, and with 

 the interstices a little convex. Antenna somewhat picescent, with their base ferruginous. Leys 

 almost concolorous with the rest of the surface (though with the knees and tarsi perhaps a little 

 picescent), and with their anterior pair rather more elongated than the rest, — though not so 

 evidently so as in the S. latipennis. 



Readily known from the other Sitonee here described by its comparatively dark 

 colour (the scutellum and a minute dash on the hinder margiu of the prothorax, 

 opposite to it, being the only portions of its upper surface Avhich are invariably 

 paler), by the extreme prominence of its eyes, and by the anterior half of its body 

 being considerably pUose, — its head and rostrum (and occasionally also the pro- 

 thorax) being often beset with long, partially erect, and more or less rigid hairs. 

 It seems to be principally confined to the south of the island, and to tlie neigh- 

 bourliood of Fimchal, — where I have constantly taken it, dming the autiminal and 

 winter months, in and about the vineyards and cultivated groimds, as well as 

 l)eneath stones on the grassy slopes towards the coast ; and I have likewise 

 observed it, sparingly, in Porto Santo. It appears to be one of the scarcer species 

 throughout Em-ope generally, being recorded by Schonherr from Austria only. I 

 have however met "with it rather plentifully in the west of England, and on the 

 sandy sea-shores of AValcs, — especially in the immediate vicioity of Holyhead, 

 where it abounds. The Madciran specimens differ in no respect from the "Welsh 

 ones, of which I possess an extensive series, — though they arc somewhat smaller 

 and narrower than the average of those from Devonshire and Cornwall. 



b. Oculi minus jJrominentes : pedes subcequales. 



311. Sitona lineata. 

 S. parallelo-elongata, squamulis fuscis et subcinereo-fuscis dense tecta, prothorace crebre et subtiliter 



punctulato, ad latera pone medium leviter rotundato, elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis alternis 



pallidioribus, antennis, tibiis tarsisque ferrugineis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 2j-2j. 



