234 Mr. J. Walton on the genus Sitona. ~ 
five from Schonherr ; these are in my opinion examples or ya- 
rieties of Cure. tibialis. Dr. Germar informs me that “ Cure. li- 
neellus of Gyll. appears to be recently excluded, and that he be- 
lieves it to be merely a small variety of Sit. crinitus.” 
Hundreds, with innumerable varieties, may be found almost 
everywhere on the furze (Ulex europaeus) in the spring and 
autumn. 
11. Sitona erinita, Oliv., Steph., Schonh. 
— lineella et albescens (var.), Steph. 
Curc. macularius, Marsh., Kirb. MSS. 
This insect greatly resembles the preceding in general habit, 
is equally variable in magnitude, but less so in the colour of the 
scales ; the elytra are proportionably longer, of a different form, 
and it is distinctly a less convex insect ; most generally thickly 
clothed with dark or pale cinereous scales ; the small varieties 
approximate very closely to the last, and are extremely liable to 
be confounded with it ; but the longer and very conspicuous sete 
with which it is invariably clothed will always distinguish it, in- 
dependent of other characters. 
I have examined a long series with many varieties captured by 
Mr. R. N. Greville in Scotland; I have found it plentifully in 
Yorkshire, and in profusion amongst tares on a chalky soil at 
Mickleham and Birch Wood in June. 
12. S. Waterhouse (Schonh. in litt.), Walton. 
Elongate, sublinear, black, sparingly clothed with cinereous 
and silvery-gray scales. Head very broad, coarsely punctured ; 
the front with a deep fovea and with a broad and very deep fur- 
row, extending from the fovea to the middle of the rostrum; the 
vertex elevated and convex: rostrum about as long as the head, 
and not much narrower: eyes very large, semiglobose, and ex- 
tremely prominent. Antennz entirely testaceous. Thorax ob- 
long, subcylindrical, slightly dilated at the sides, flat above ; very 
coarsely and deeply punctured, somewhat rugose ; clothed at the 
sides more or less closely with scales ; the dise sometimes gla- 
brous. LElytra elongate, the shoulders nearly rectangular, the 
angular points rounded, and the callous elevated, the sides 
straight, the apex obtusely rounded ; profoundly punctate-sulcate, 
the 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. Legs totally testa- 
eeous. Length 23 lines. 
This is a new and distinct species according to Schonherr and 
Germar. 
I have seen only three specimens, one of which I obtained from 
a dealer at York, who said it was found in the neighbourhood of 
