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moutli, and near Cambridge ; but, with the exception of 

 Mr. Wollaston's specimens, and those taken by my friend 

 Mr. W. Garneys, at Bungay in Suffolk, I know of no other 

 recent captures of this species, at all events in any numbers. 



88. Gymnetron BECCABUNGiE, Linn. Faun. Suec. 607 



{Curculio) ', Gyll. ; Germ.; Schon. Syn. Ins. iv. 

 349, 6. 

 var. veronicce, Germ. ; Schon. {loc. cit.)j 748, 5, 

 var. niger, Walt. 

 Mr. Crotch (Ent. vol. i. p. 219), points out the above 

 alterations in the name of the insect hitherto known to us as 

 veroniccB, found on Veronica heccahunga and Schrophularia, 

 and subject to great variation in colour and size ; the usual 

 form being black, with the sides of the thorax white. 



It appears that Mr. Wollaston, long ago (in the "Zoolo- 

 gist") expressed his belief in the specific identity of the 

 different varieties of this insect, — an opinion since abund- 

 antly confirmed. 



89. Gymnetron micros. Germ.; Schon. Syn. Ins. iv. 



776, 50; G. R. Crotch, "The Entomologist," vol. i. 

 p. 220. 

 Mr. Crotch records this species as British, on the autho- 

 rity of two specimens, taken by Mr. T. V. Wollaston at 

 Whitsand Bay, Cornwall; and describes it as "sub-ovate, 

 thickly clothed with cinereous hairs; rostrum slightly 

 arcuate ; thorax thickly punctured ; elytra obsoletely punc- 

 tate-striate ; femora unarmed. 1 — 1^ line." He mentions, 

 also, that the general form of the insect is that of Caynpanulce^ 

 from which its lightly striated elytra at once distinguish it ; 

 and that it occurs on the Continent on Helianthemum gut- 

 tatum, in dry places (^Perris'), 



