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other localities he adds : " M. Waterhouse me l'a envoyee d' Angleterre, 

 et notre collegue M. Lethierry l'a rapportee de Medeah, en Algerie." 

 Weise, Ins. Deutschl. 6, p. 837, only records the species as occurring 

 on vines in Southern Europe, Algeria and Syria, and adds : " das 

 Vorkommen in England (Allard) ist unwahrscheinlich." The occur- 

 rence of " ampelophaga " in England was, however, corroborated by 

 the later authority, Kutschera, as recorded by Eye, Entom. Annual, 

 1869, p. 54, who in a parenthesis adds that ampelophaga " must be 

 coryli from its constant habitat, or else coryli and ampelophaga cannot 

 be specifically distinct." According to Weise, op. cit. p. 833, coryli 

 is quercetorum Foudr. var., and ampelopkaga Allard, is the vine 

 species. Its occurrence in England is very doubtful. 



These remarks might be much amplified if other authorities were 

 considered, but they are sufficient to show the confusion that has 

 existed. Weise, moreover, appears to have known but little of Allard's 

 ericeti ; he considers it to be a form unknown in Germany, and only 

 doubtfully distinct from ampelophaga, the vine species. 



It is thus very difficult to identify the ericeti of Allard with 

 certainty. But it appears highly probable that the ampelophaga of 

 Waterhouse is coryli of our collections, and that ericeti of Allard is 

 a very closely allied species attached to Erica instead of to hazel. 

 This view agrees with Fowler, Brit. Col., 4, p. 355, and with Edwards, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., 27, p. 291. 



The two authorities last mentioned identify ericeti with a northern 

 Haltica, the male of which is remarkable on account of the greatly 

 developed basal joint of the front tarsus. I formerly adopted this 

 view, but after a correspondence with Mr. Britten I found that he 

 entertained a different opinion, and this induced me to reconsider the 

 whole matter, and as a result of this I feel but little doubt that he is 

 correct and that the ericeti of Allard is an insect I had distinguished 

 in my collection, and to which I had attached the MS. name scutellaris, 

 under the impression that it was an undescribed form. This species 

 is a large Haltica, 5 mm. long, convex, of a beautiful blue-green or 

 green colour; with the scutellum never concolorous with the elytra 

 and usually of a brilliant golden, or pale metallic, colour. The elytra 

 have very marked punctuation. 



The species occurs but rarely here. I have a series that I have 

 accumulated in the New Forest during ten years of special search for 

 it ; Mr. Champion has a series from Surrey, and Mr. Britten has also 

 a few specimens. It is here attached I believe to Erica tetralix. All 



