326 PHYTOPHAGA. [ Lochmea. 
Female with the fifth ventral segment slightly incised in the middle. 
On young willows and sallows, especially Salix caprea, also on birches ; somewhat 
local, but very widely distributed, and common in the midland districts ; the follow- 
ing species appears to take its place further north, the only Scotch record being from 
the Solway district. Ireland, Dublin and Belfast. 
L. suturalis, Thoms. Exceedingly closely allied to the preceding, 
with which it was regarded as identical until Thomson separated it as 
a distinct species; it is much darker in colour, and occasionally is entirely 
black ; the elytra are often black or nearly black, and the suture, at all 
events, is always dark; apart from the difference of colour, how- 
ever, which is variable in LZ. capree, it may be known from the latter 
species by having the forehead more shining, more sparingly but more 
strongly punctured, and the frontal tubercles distinct and polished; the 
thorax also is more shining and more scantily punctured at the sides, 
and in the male the second and third ventral segments of the abdomen 
are clothed with thicker and longer pilose hairs. L. 4-55 mm. 
On heather ; by no means uncommon, and very widely distributed; it has, however, 
been so much mixed up with the preceding that the records are uncertain; it also 
occurs on birches and willows (especially, according to Thomson, on Salix repens) ; it 
is probably common in the Northumberland and Durham district, and the Scotch 
record is “ abundant among heather,”’ Solway, Tweed, Forth, Dee, Moray, and probably 
other districts ; Ireland, Armagh. 
L. crategi, Forst. (sanguinea, F.). Oblong, rather short and 
broad, convex, upper surface sanguineous, under-side black ; head closely 
punctured, antenna rather short, dark; thorax transverse, with sides 
rounded and not angled, with a central furrow and a fovea on each side, 
strongly and coarsely punctured ; seutellum pubescent, elytra closely, 
strongly, and coarsely punctured ; legs rather stout. L. 4-5 mm. 
Male with the scutellum and the impressions of the thorax black, and the 
elytra with a patch and an abbreviated band, or two abbreviated bands, 
also black ; legs black, with the tibie testaceous at base, and the posterior 
pair sinuate internally towards base, tarsi with the first joint moderately 
dilated; fifth ventral segment of abdomen with a broad impressed channel 
in middle, terminated at base in a small tooth. 
Female with the thorax and elytra immaculate, or with the dark 
markings very obsolete, and with the legs and apex of abdomen red. 
On flowers of whitethorn ; rather common and generally distributed in the London 
district, and the southern counties ; less common further north ; Swansea ; Cambridge- 
shire; Hunts; Bishops Wood, Staffordshire; Needwood Forest; Ingleby, near 
Repton ; York ; Northumberland district rare; Scotland rare, Tweed district; Ire- 
land, Galway (J. J. Walker) and Armagh (Johnson). 
GALERUCELLA, Crotch. (Galeruca, auct.) 
The name of Galerwca, which has been assigned in most of our British 
catalogues to this genus, ought, apparently, to be assigned to Adimonia, 
as, however, the change would cause considerable confusion, I have still 
