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characterised by the larva) and by different perfect insects. I have endeavoured 

 to define these species in my article "Altise," in the "Encyclopedic de l'Agri- 

 culture," published by M. M. Firrnin Didot, and I have established two 

 distinct species, for the Halticce which attack vines, and those which live 

 upon a thistle, very common in the same localities. These are the characteristics 

 extracted in an abridged form from my article: — Graptodera amphelophaga. 

 — Larger than the true G. oleracea, of a greenish blue colour, and differing 

 from it in the frontal keel of the head, which while it reaches nearly to the 

 edge of the clypeus, is thicker towards the base; and by the anterior angles 

 of its corselet, which are rather enlarged and rounded before, thus forming 

 two little projections. Graptodera carduorum. — Smaller than the preceding 

 insect, and larger than the Oleracea; of a beautiful shining blue. Frontal 

 keel beginning as high as the insertion of the antennae, and descending 

 towards the clypeus, ending before reaching its edge at a transverse keel, 

 which is parallel to the clypeus; this keel is thicker above. Anterior angles 

 of the corselet without any projection; punctuation of the elytra delicate and 

 vague, nearly effaced behind, etc. I have given further details of these species, 

 and descriptions and drawings of their, larva?, comparing them with those 

 of A. oleracea, in the "Encyclopedic de l'Agriculture." — F. E. Guerin- 

 Meneville. From the "Revue de Zoologie" for October. 



NOTES OF AN EXCURSION TO GLASTONBURY, 

 WELLS, AND THE MENDIP HILLS. 



BY W. V. GUISE, ESQ., F. L. S. 



It has always appeared to me that there is between natural and 

 antiquarian science, if not a degree of kindred and consanguinity, yet 

 certainly such a measure of congeniality and accordance, as renders the 

 one in a high degree compatible with the other. For myself I may 

 confidently aver, that I have found in the pursuit of antiquities and 

 heraldry, a pleasure only second to that which I have derived from 

 the study of nature herself. Whenever therefore an opportunity offers of 

 combining the two, I rarely neglect to avail myself of it, and thus, when 

 from weather or locality, the one subject of inquiry fails, it seldom happens 

 but that the other affords me ample matter for interest and investigation. 

 It was, therefore, with reference to both these objects, that on the 22nd. 

 of July I joined the members of the Archaeological Institute in an excursion 

 to Glastonbury Abbey and Wells, with a view to extending my researches 

 afterwards in the direction of the Mendip Hills, and of examining the 

 Cheddar Cliffs, and some of the more noted caverns with which those hills 

 are perforated. 



A tolerably large number of archaeologists mustered at the station at 

 Bath, and departed by the nine o'clock train for Glastonbury. The sky 



