312 PHY TOPHAGA, | Phytodecta. 
On sallows and willows ; local; London district, rather common, Woking, Hasle- 
mere, Darenth, West Wickham and Coombe Woods, Epping Vorest; Farnham ; 
Monks Wood; Brandon; New Forest; Lords Wood, Southampton; Bewdley Forest ; 
Burnt Wood, Staffordshire; Yorkshire; Durham; it is not included in Dr. Sharp’s 
Scotch list, but the G. 10-7unctata, one of the vars. of G. vininalis, is recorded by 
Stephens from “ Raehills,’ Rev. W. Little. 
P. olivacea, Forst. (s.g. Spartophila, Chevr.). .Oval, very convex, 
rather shining, rafo-testaceous, upper surface finely alutaceous, breast 
and abdomen dark, often blackish; head thickly and rather strongly 
punctured, antenne moderately long, infuscate towards apex ; thorax 
rather finely punctured on disc, coarsely at sides, very transverse, with 
the sides very slightly rounded; elytra with strong and deep rows of 
large punctures, interstices scarcely punctured ; the ordinary colour is 
testaceous with the suture dark, but is variable; legs rather stout, 
anterior tibize with the external tooth at apex very short and blunt. 
L. 33-43 mm. 
Male with the last joint of the maxillary palpi broad and securi- 
form. 
There are three well-marked varieties of this insect which require 
noticing :— 
V. flavicans, F., entirely rufo-testaceous or yellowish-red. 
V. litura, F., rufo-testaceous, with two spots on forehead, the suture 
of elytra and a longitudinal band on each, and the breast and abdomen 
black. 
V. nigricans, Weise, colour entirely black, or with the mouth parts, 
base of antenne, forehead and legs rufescent. 
On the broom (Spartium seoparium) ; locally common; London district, common 
and generally distributed; Hastings; Portsmouth district; Isle of Wight; Glan- 
villes Wootton (on dyers’ woad); Devon; Swansea; Barmouth; Knowle, near 
Birmingham; Bewdley Forest; Stenson, near Repton; Manchester, general ; 
Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, abundant, Solway, Tay, Dee, 
Moray, and probably other districts ; the black variety is uncommon, and occurs rarely 
with the type in Scotland and one or two other localities. 
P. pallida, L. (s.g. Spartophila, Chevr.; Goniomena, Mots.). 
Oblong-oval, convex, rufo-testaceous, rather shining, somewhat resem- 
bling the preceding species, but considerably larger; the antenne are 
entirely testaceous, and the thorax is more diffusely and much more 
coarsely punctured on disc; the rows of punctures on the elytra are 
also stronger, and the interstices are diffusely and very finely, but 
usually evidently punctured ; the apex of the elytra is slightly produced 
at suture ; the anterior tibie are simple and not denticulate externally 
at apex. L, 5-7 mm. 
On sallow, hazel, mountain ash, &¢e.; local ; London district, not common, Mickle- 
hain, Caterham, Coombe Wood, Reigate, West Wickham, Tilgate Forest ; Folkestone ; 
Malvern; Bretby Wood, near Burton-on-Trent (taken in numbers on sallows by Mr. 
E. Brown, but I never found it in the locality) ; Church Stretton; Halifax ; Ripon ; 
Scarborough ; Arnecliffe in Wharfedale ; Northumberland and Durham district ; 
