220 RHYNCHOPHORA. [Sitones. 
Taken by Dr. Power at Rathkurby, near Waterford, Ireland, and recorded by 
Dr. Sharp as very rare in Scotland in the Clyde district. 
S. regensteinensis, Herbst. A very distinct species, which is 
extremely variable in size; black, variegated with coppery or greenish 
or greenish-grey scales, which are more thick on head and on sides and 
central line of thorax, and are more or less dense on elytra, on which 
two spaces at base opposite the two dark lines on thorax are usually 
more or less denuded; antenne pitchy, with scape red; rostrum and 
forehead distinctly suleate ; thorax convex, about as long as_ broad, 
with sides rounded, closely and deeply punctured, anterior margin 
raised ; elytra oval, with rather fine but distinct punctured strie ; inter- 
stices flat, with long raised sete ; legs squamose, femora dark, tibie and 
tarsi red ; underside thickly squamose. L. 3-6 mm. 
On broom and furze in spring and autumn; generally distributed and common 
throughout the kingdom. 
S. Waterhousei, Walt. Black, sparingly clothed with ashy and 
silvery grey scales; head very broad, coarsely punctured, front with 
a broad fovea and a broad and deep furrow, eyes very large, semiglobose 
and extremely prominent ; antennz testaceous or pitchy towards apex ; 
thorax oblong, subcylindrical, slightly dilated at the sides, flat above, 
very coarsely and deeply punctured, somewhat rugose, clothed at the 
sides and on central line more or less thickly with scales ; elytra with 
the shoulders elevated and callose, sides straight, apex obtusely rounded, ~ 
with deep punctured striz ; interstices very narrow, convex and rugulose, 
the second and fourth from the suture distinctly elevated, and clothed 
more or less with cinereous and silvery white scales, raised seta very 
distinct behind ; legs ferruginous or pitchy testaceous. L. 43-5 mm. 
At the roots of Lotus corniculatus; very local; Claygate (Power); Fairlight, 
Hastings (Power) ; Amberley, near Arundel ; Isle of Wight (Blatch) ; New Forest ; 
‘cat one time abundant at Southsea under birds-foot trefoil ; also plentiful at Gosport 
(Moncreaff); Chesil Bank, common (J. J. Walker) ; Seaton, Devon, Jan. 3-10, 
1865 (Power); Whitsand Bay, near Plymouth (J. J. Walker); Heysham and Lan- 
caster (Reston); Ireland, near Waterford (Power); Walton records it doubtfully 
from Cambridge. - 
S. crinitus, Herbst. (macularius, Marsh). Brownish or reddish 
brown, clothed with greyish brown scales which, in fresh specimens, 
have a slight coppery reflection ; head broad, rostrum very short, an- 
tenn reddish with elub pitchy ; head and thorax deeply and distinetly 
and moderately closely punctured, the latter transverse, with three 
lighter longitudinal lines ; elytra with fine punctured striw, variegated 
with small black patches, and with very distinct outstanding sete: 
femora dark, tibiz and tarsi red. L. 3-4 mm. 
On broom, clover, peas, &c.; also on tares; local, but generally distributed and 
more or less common in the London district and on the south coast; Littlington, 
Cambridge ; Wicken Fen; Ashwicken ; Llangollen ; rare in the Midlands, Hopwas 
Wood, Tamworth (Blatch), being the only locality I know of; Yorkshire, plentiful 
