to the Catalogue of British Coleoptera. 439 
circular in outline but more elliptical than the eyes of S. suturalis. 
The elytra are not so strongly punctate-striate, and the interstices 
are quite flat, while they are slighly convex in suturalis. 
I took a great number of specimens in company with Apion 
ononidis off Ononis spinosa at Herne Bay in September last year ; 
S. suturalis occurred on a species of vetch at the same place and 
time, but each species was strictly confined to its appropriate 
plant. Dr. Power captured it subsequently and also in numbers 
at the same locality. Many of the species of Sitones are very 
closely allied to one another, and a single specimen is often very 
difficult to determine. ‘The insect at present under consideration 
is undoubtedly very closely allied to S. suturalis, but I think the 
above characters (drawn from a long series of specimens), and its 
different food plant, render it desirable that it should be dis- 
tinguished by a name of its own. Like many other species of the 
genus it varies somewhat in the colour of the scales with which it 
is clothed, these in some specimens showing no trace of metallic 
lustre.—D. 8. 
6. Anthicus salinus. 
A. niger, griseo-pubescens; capite parce tenuiter punctato; 
thorace antice latitudini capitis equali, postice valde coarc- 
tato, mox ante basin constricto, creberrime et subtiliter punc- 
tato, opaco; elytris nitidis, parce et minus fortiter punctatis, 
transversim subrugulosis ; antennis nigro-fuscis, brevioribus ; 
femoribus piceis, tibiis tarsisque rufescentibus. 
Long. 1—14 lin. 
A. humili, Germ., affinis, sed thorace antice latiore puncturaque 
subtiliore et crebriore facillime distinguendus. 
Found near Lymington in the Salterns by Mr. Waterhouse, 
also at Gravesend. It is, I believe, the Sp.? No. 2 of that gentle- 
man’s Catalogue.—G. R. C. 
7. Gyrophena Poneri. 
G. flava, capite elytris angulo externo apicali abdomineque 
ante apicem piceis; capite fortiter punctato; thorace parce 
sed zequaliter punctato, seriebus dorsalibus obsoletis ; elytris 
crebre rugoso-punctatis, abdomine nitido levi. 
Long. vix 1 lin, 
$ abdominis segmento ultimo in spinis 4 producto, duabus 
externis incurvis; segmento 6to tuberculis 4 parvis instructo. 
