80 COLEOPTERA. 



with yellowish-green, slightly metallic, round scales, with 

 the funiculus reddish-brown, and the broad, flat interstices 

 of the elytra sometimes alternately more yellow than the rest. 

 It seems to live among grass, and to be very common at 

 Vienna. The genus is almost peculiarly South-European, 

 and its extension from the Caucasus, Crimea, Hungary, 

 Crete and Algiers to the north-west coast of Britain is, 

 indeed, interesting. 



74. SiTONES ONONiDis, Sharp (Nov., 1865) ; Bedel, linn. 



Soc. Ent. Fr., 4e. ser., 1871, Bull. Ixiii. 

 guttulatus, Chevrolat, ihid., lii. 



M. Chevrolat appears to have detected the identity of this 

 insect with Dr. Sharp's species, when correcting the proofs 

 of his article. It has been considered to be meliloti by a 

 French authority ! M. Bedel records its capture on Ononis 

 repe7is in the Departement de L'Orne. 



75. SiTONES BREVicoLLis, Schonh., Gen. et Spec. Cure, ii, 



114; Allard, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 4e ser., xiv, 350 

 {tibialis, var. b) ; Berl. Ent. Zeit., xiii, 321 ; Thomson, 

 Skand. Col., vii, IQO {tibialis, var. d, $ ) ; Opusc. 

 Ent., iii, 336; D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col.; Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., viii, 83. 

 Allard, wdio, after some hesitation reunited the tibialis, 

 striatellus, ambiguiis, and brevicollis of Schonherr as varie- 

 ties of one species, now considers that (with the exception of 

 the 2nd of them) they are specifically distinct. Thomson 

 originally considered brevicollis as the $ of ambiguus, both 

 of them forming his var. d of tibialis : but he also now 

 allows brevicollis specific rank. 



Thomson's exhaustive characters for S. brevicollis, as 

 compared with tibialis^ are its less size, its rostrum being 



