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female of C. transversa exhibits a similar scheme of elytral punctuation, 

 but in that insect the punctures are larger, and in the male sex are 

 very confused. 



This species was discovered by my friend Mr. C. Gr. Lamb at 

 Hay ling Island, in September last, and I judge from his account that 

 it is thoroughly littoral in habit, the specimens having been found on 

 a spot covered by the sea at high tides. 



The latest monographer of the Palsearctic Crepidodera, Dr. J. 

 Daniel, states (Miincli. Kol. Zeitschr. ii, p. 247) that C. impressa is a 

 Mediterranean insect, but that he has seen one specimen of it from 

 Moritzbiirg, near Dresden, and another from Gerebencz, in Hungary. 

 Neither of them seems to be authentic as to locality. Bedel (Faune 

 Col. Seine, v, p. 178) merely alludes to the species in a foot-note, as it 

 has not been found in Fronce. Weise (Ins. Deutschl. vi, p. 703) says 

 of G. impressa, " on pastures along the shores of the Mediterranean, 

 not rare : in oiir country I know only of specimens collected by Prof. 

 Schreiber, near Grorz. They have a stronger punctuation of the elytra 

 than the North African and South European examples." It is pro- 

 bable that near Gorz refers to a spot on the shores of the Gulf of 

 Trieste. 



My conclusion is that the species is one of the sea-shore, and that 

 it is probable that it occurs along the Western Coasts of France. I 

 have already mentioned my suspicion that the specimens said to have 

 been found in Central Europe are erroneous as to either locality or 

 determination. I may mention that I have not been able to see a 

 foreign example of the species, and that most of the books say that 

 the lateral margin of the thorax is finer in C. impressa than it is in 

 C. transversa. This is not so in the Hayling Island examples. I have, 

 however, very little doubt as to their being the Mediterranean species. 



lirockenhiu'st : 



January 11th, 1910. 



GALERUCELLA PUSILLA, Weise, IN ENGLAND. 

 BY DAVID SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. 



When Weise's work on the Galerucidse appeared in 1886, 1 named 

 a few specimens in my collection as his G. pusilla. The form, however, 

 appeared to me to be so near to G. calmariensis, that I did not mention 

 its occurrence here, preferring to wait till I should obtain more speci- 

 mens. In the interval I have done so, and I think it now time to call 

 attention to the matter. 



