376 CAJfARIAX COLEOPTERA. 



punetatis, illo postice punctis duobus cinereis ornato oeulis oblongo- 

 rotundatis valde prominentibus, hoe ad latera pallidiore rotundato, 

 linea media et punctis 2 vel 3 utrinque aniiexis pallidioribus or- 

 nato ; elytris cjiindricis, per suturam obscure albidis, interstitiis 

 alternis tete fulvo nigroque tessellatis ; antennis ad basin pedi- 

 busque (squamosis) clarioribus. — Long. corp. lin. 2|-3. 



Sitones punctiger, WolL, Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. 220 (1863). 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventurara, sub lapidibus in aridis 

 arenosis et calcariis degens. 



This large Sitones is at once remarkable for its deeply sculptured, 

 rounded prothorax (which, in addition to a few scattered and some- 

 times obsolete ones, has two or three small cinereous punctiform 

 spots on either side of its paler central line) ; for its cylindric, prettily 

 tessellated elytra (the suture of which is of a more or less obscure 

 chalky white) ; for its extremely prominent eyes ; and for the two 

 subaj)proximated cinereous specks (similar to those on the prothorax) 

 with which the hinder portion of its head is ornamented. It appears 

 to be very rare (or, at all events, extremely local), and confined to the 

 two eastern islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura — in the former 

 of which I took it, not uncommonly, during March and April of 1859, 

 from beneath stones, in the flat sandy district to the south of (and 

 adjoining) Arrecife ; whilst, in the latter, I met with it, though more 

 sparingly, a few weeks later, on the calcareous hill immediately out- 

 side the little town of S'* Maria Betancuria. 



574. Sitones cambricus. 



Sitona cambrica (Mi/), Steph., Ill Brit. Ent. iv. 140 (1831). 

 Sitones cribricoUis, Schon., Gen. et Spec. Cure. ii. 101 (1834). 

 Sitona cambrica, WolL, Ins. Mad. 405 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 120 (1857). 



Habitat in Canaria et Teneriffa, rarior. 



The European S. cambrici's, which is common in the east of Ma- 

 deira and in Porto Santo, is decidedly scai'ce in these islands — where 

 hitherto I have met with it only in Grand Canary and Tenerifffe. In 

 the latter, however, it is widely spread, my specimens being from the 

 vicinity of Orotava, the mountains above S*" Cruz, the Agua Garcia, 

 and the Agua Mansa. 



575. Sitones lineatus. 



Curculio lineatus, Linn., Fna Suec. 183 (1761). 

 Sitones lineatus, Schon., Ge7i. et Spec. Cure. ii. 109 (1834). 

 Sitona lineata, Woll, Ins. Mad. 406 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 120 (1857). 



Habitat Canariam,TenenfFam et Palmam, prsecipue in eultis degens. 



