228 Mr. J. — on the genus Sitona. 
the body, distinguish this common insect at a glance from every 
other species. 
2. Sitona suturalis, Steph. 
Cure. rufipes, Marsh., non Linn. 
This insect very much resembles the preceding in general 
habit, but may at once be recognised by having the thorax and 
elytra entirely without hairs, and from every other species by its 
subdepressed eyes. 
s Unknown to Schénherr and Germar until I sent specimens to 
them. 
Local and not often met with ; I once found it plentifully in a 
damp meadow in Yorkshire. Taken abundantly by Mr. 8. Stevens 
and myself amongst grass in a moist field on the west side of 
Turner’s Wood, Hampstead, in June ; it also occurs in Hackney 
Marshes. 
§ B. Eyes moderately prominent. 
3. S. Regensteinensis, Herbst, Germ., Schénh., Steph. Manual. 
— Spartii, femoralis et pleuritica, Steph. Illustr. 
Curc. Spartii, Kirb. MSS. 
Dr. Germar concurs with Mr. Stephens in referring this in- 
sect to Curc. Regensteinensis of Herbst *, and M. Schonherr to 
Cure. Spartii of Kirby +, with which it is distinctly synonymous ; 
Curc. Ulicis, referred to Kirby (MSS.), is not to be found in his 
manuscript. I possess specimens from M. Chevrolat of Pants, 
named S. Regensteinensis. 
Excessively variable in size (length 14—3 hnes), but distin- 
guished from all the other species by having the thorax consi- 
derably dilated and rounded at the sides, and remarkably nar- 
rowed behind, with the elytra setose. 
Found abundantly on the broom and furze in the spring and 
autumn. 
4. S. sulcifrons, Thunb., Germ., Schonh., Steph. Man. 
Curc. tibialis, Gyll., Steph. Ilustr. 
— chloropus, Marsh. ? 
— subaurata, Kirb. MSS., Steph. 
— pleuriticus, Kirb. MSS. 
My British specimens were referred by Schonherr and Germar 
to the first name, and an insect sent by Gyllenhal im the foreign 
collection of Kirby i is identical. Mr. Stephens has in his pos- 
session two examples of Curc. chloropus from the collection of 
Marsham, one of which is the true Curc. tibialis of Herbst, and 
the other is Sitona sulcifrons of Thunb. ; the latter is accurately 
* Ent. Zeit. Stettin, no. 5. p. 99, 1842. 
+ Schonh. Syn, Ins. vii. p. 455. 
