XEW BRITISH SPECIES iVOTICED IN I860. 79 



Berlin "Catalogus Coleopterorum Europe" as a variety 

 C. vZ-functata. 



Locality unknown. 

 33. Crepidodera Atrop^, Foudras. 



ETpitrvx Atropce (Maerkel), Foudras in Mulsant's Hist. 

 Nat. des Coleopt. de France, Altisides, 311, 3 (March* 

 1860); E. W. Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1 Oct. 186o' 

 Zool. 7267 (1860). 

 Crepidodera Atrop^, Allard, Annales d. 1. Soc. Ent 

 de France, Ser. 3, viii. m, 21 (June, 1860). 



Ilaltica Atropce, IsUerkeX in litteris mm- Rev H 



Clark, Zool. 7266 (1860). * * 



Haltica pubescens, var. a and b, Ent. Hefte ii 37 17 



t. 2, f. 11(1803). ^ • ^ '. 



The members of the genus Epitrix, proposed by the late 



M. l^oudras in the extraordinary work above cited, for the 



reception of the Altica pube.cens, Ent. Hefte (excludinc 



Tars, a and b), the E. intermedia, Foudras, and the present 



species, are distinguished by their pubescent elvtra, and 



certain minute structural peculiarities of the generative 



organs, which can scarcely be accepted as o^ cjeneric value 



M. Allard observes that the present insect '^ \s perhaps 

 ony a variety of pub esc ens;' and, further, that "it differs 

 only in its more diminutive size and the light spots on its 

 elytra, of which the pubescence is also a httle less dense." 



A careful comparison, however, convinces me that the two 

 insects are specifically distinct, and, setting aside the dis- 

 crepancies in the form of the jedeagus pointed out by 

 M. Foudras, and which I hold to be per se conclusive evi- 

 dence on the point, I will direct attention to certain less 

 recondite differences. 



C. Atropce is a smaller insect than C. pubescens -hot\i 



