NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 43 



0? Phloeotrihus olece from an ash tree imported from France, 

 i-ecorded by Prof. Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc, 21 Nov., 

 1870. The species does not, however, seem very likely ever 

 to be truly indigenous. 



In '^ Newman's Entomologist," No. 91, p. 309, is an un- 

 signed but presumably editorial note, concerning the com- 

 mon Haltica {Podagricci) fuscicornis, Linn., which, accord- 

 ing to information and specimens obtained from Mr. H. 

 Eeeks of Newburj^, is very destructive to leguminous plants, 

 such as saint-foin, &c. As the Leguviinosce are already 

 liable to the attacks of an undue number of Coleopterous 

 enemies, such a newly developed habit in an insect hitherto 

 exclusively living on Malva and Althcea would be more 

 carious than satisfactory to the agriculturist; but it is tole- 

 rably evident that the usually astute editor has been for the 

 moment led astray by his most interesting and practical dis- 

 cussion on the earliest synonymy of the species above quoted; 

 and that the insects sent by Mr. Reeks are in all probability 

 the equally common Crepidodera riifipeSy Linn., readily dis- 

 tinguished, ocido mido, by the deeply impressed fovea at the 

 base of its thorax, and diffeient build, and which is attached 

 to Orohus, Vicia, and others of the Leguminosce. 



It may be as well, however, to corroborate the editor's 

 proposition that the name fuscico7-nis, Linn., ^* must be 

 adopted" for the Podagrica, by calling attention to the fact 

 that it has been adopted by Illiger, Panzer, Gyllenhal, 

 Stephens, Redtenbacher, Xiister, Foudras, Allard, Kuts- 

 chera and Thomson; also in the Ent. Heft., in the Cata- 

 logues of Schaum, Waterhouse, Grenier, De ?tlarseul, Stein, 

 Crotch, and Sharp, the Stettin Catalogues, &c., — in fact, by 

 every authority. The insect has not become better known 

 on the continent by the name of rujipes (which Fabricius 

 promulgated, by the way, before Panzer), as the editor 



