Sitones.] RUYNCHOPHORA., 221 



(Walton) ; not recorded from tbe extreme northern counties of England ; Scotland, 

 rare, Solway and Forth districts ; Ireland, Baldoyle, and near Belfast. 



Mr. Rye (Ent. Monthly Mag. I., p. 232), makes the following re- 

 marks regarding this species: ft Somewhat resembles S. tibialis, hut is 

 lighter in colour, testaceous, and with longer elytra, which are distinctly 

 clothed with slight erect hairs. The darkest specimens are ochreous 

 grey, with four broad fuscous lines on the thorax, in a manner con- 

 tinued on the elytra ; the two middle lines forming a broad mark near 

 the scutellum, and then becoming narrower along the suture ; these 

 bands are slightly mottled with darker colours. The lightest examples 

 are pale ochreous grey, exhibiting scarcely a trace of the above mark- 

 ings ; and with the legs entirely testaceous, although the femora and 

 apex of the tarsi are usually fuscous. Intermediate conditions are of 

 course to be found, some of which have an isolated darker mark on 

 the elytra. It is common on tares, especially on the south coast ; 

 and may be readilv known in the sweeping net by its peculiar chalky 

 look." 



S. llneellus, Gyll. Closely allied to S. crinitus, but on an average 

 smaller, with the eyes less prominent, the thorax usually more dilated 

 in the middle, with the punctuation (though strong) finer and closer, 

 and the elytra punctured at apex and with small and short outstanding 

 hairs, instead of distinct setse ; the elytra are slightly contracted towards 

 the base, thence a little broader to middle, more distinctly and 

 strongly punctured, with the striae more deeply impressed, the inter- 

 stices being a little convex. The upper surface is brown (except the 

 scutellum, which is white), with a white spot, more or less prolonged, 

 at the origin of the 5th, 6th, and 7th interstices ; the two or three 

 last interstices, and the underside, are also white. L. 3-3] mm. 



A northern species ; Heyshm and Lancaster (Reston); Northumberland and Dur- 

 ham district, rare, " sea- banks north of Whitley, and Hetton Hall, near Belford, W. 

 B. Boyd, Esq." (Bold); Hartlepool (Blatch); Scotland, rare, Solway and Forth 

 districts, Aberlady, &c. (Sharp and Hislop). 



This species differs from S. tibialis in having the legs more uniformly 

 rufous, the eyes less prominent, the antennae with a shorter club, the 

 elytra with less strong punctured striae, the thorax longer, and the elytra 

 less lineated, but more spotted; the hairs at the hinder part of "the 

 elytra are, also, somewhat longer. 



S. tibialis, Herbst. This species may, as a rule, be easily known 

 by the distinct lines of silvery grey scales which are present on both 

 thorax and elytra, and the prominent eyes ; the form is oblong and 

 convex ; head and thorax very closely and rather deeply punctured, the 

 latter about as long as broad with the sides slightly rounded : elytra 

 with rather fine punctured stria? legs variable, but usually with the 

 femora, except base, dark, and the tibiae and tarsi red ; occasionally the 



