/b COLEOPTERA. 



by its liardl}' perceptibly punctured thorax ; and that he has 

 found t\yo old specimens mixed with the common species. 



64. Graptodera pusilla, Duft. ; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. 



Col. ; id. Zool. 9001 (1864). 



"Cambridge." Mr. Crotch states this was named for* 

 him by M. Allard. 



Allard states that this species (the G. Helianthemi of his 

 Gah?r. Anis. 85, 38) is larger than G. oleracea, more convex, 

 and with the elytra less strongly punctured. 



65. Aphthona nigriceps, W. Redt., quasd. Gen. et Spec. 



Col. Austr. p. 27, 25 (Haltica); L. Redt., Faun. 

 Austr. 940 (1067) 5 {Long? tarsus) ; Allard, Gal. 

 Anis. 1861, 395, 116; E. C. Rye, Ent. M. Mag. 

 vol. i. p. 117. 



Much sm.aller than J. lutescens, from which it differs in 

 being not so flat, and of a shorter oval form ; also in having 

 a black head and scutellum, but no black patch on the 

 hinder femora, and the antennae not so stout or deep black. 

 It somewhat resembles Tliyamis atncapilla, in miniature ; 

 but may, of course, be known from that insect by the short 

 basal joint of its posterior tarsi. 



Head black; antennee pitchy brown, with the five basal 

 joints testaceous ; thorax rufo-testaceous ; elytra testaceous, 

 with the suture itself brown, and a more or less strongly de- 

 veloped pitchy-black sutural stain, never reaching to the scu- 

 tellum or apex. Body black ; legs testaceous, the hinder 

 femora fusco-testaceous. 



First taken by Mr. J. Harris of Burton, by sweeping the 

 cranesbill {Gcranhun jrrafense) at Egginton, on the banks 

 of the Trent, near Burton ; afterwards taken in the greatest 

 profusion, at the same place, and under similar conditions, by 



