Haltica. | PHYTOPHAGA. 357 
Male with the first joint of the anterior tarsi dilated, almost as broad 
as the third joint, and with the last segment of the abdomen sparingly 
punctured and pubescent in middle, with a shallow impression which is 
deeper towards apex ; the intromittent organ is subtruneate and rounded 
at apex, and is produced in the middle of the apical margin into a small 
point. 
Marshy places; on Epi/obium, and according to Weise on Lythrum salicaria ; 
locally common; Esher, Snodland, Chatham, Southend, Cowley, Bearsted near 
Maidstone ; Norfolk Fens; New Forest; Ryde; Glanvilles Wootton; Devon ; 
Swansea ; Barmouth ; Knowle, near Birmingham; Hunts; not mentioned in Dr. 
Sharp’s Scotch list, but recorded by Stephens from Edinburgh (it is, however, quite 
possible that the record applies to another species) ; Ireland, near Belfast. 
Varieties of this species occur, not uncommonly, in which the elytra 
are obsoletely sulcate longitudinally, or are furnished with two or three 
sharply raised, and more or less distinct, coste, which are sometimes 
interrupted. 
H. ericeti, All. Oblong ovate, with the sides of the elytra sub- 
parallel until behind middle, and thence gradually narrowed to apex, 
upper surface greenish-blue, with the elytra more shining than in the 
preceding species; head with the vertex scarcely punetured, and 
furnished with a small impression, frontal tubercles distinct, antenne 
dark, with the third joint twice as long as second ; thorax transverse, 
with sides slightly rounded and narrowed in front, very finely punctured 
on disc, more plainly at sides and towards anterior angles, which project 
and are moderately callose ; the transverse furrow before base is scarcely 
continued obliquely at each side as in HZ, lythri; elytra not much 
broader at base than thorax, with the humeral callosities not strongly 
marked, with the punctuation stronger than in the preceding species, 
but somewhat variable, and with the interstices of the elytra more 
finely alutaceous, so that the upper surface is more shining; legs dark, 
metallic. L. 43-6 mm, 
The male is said to be the H. longicollis of Allard ; it differs in having 
the thorax only a quarter broader than long, and the transverse furrow 
before its base shorter; the thorax is extremely finely punctured, and 
the punctuation of the elytra, as a rule, is finer than in the female ; 
this point, however, is variable ; the basal joint of the anterior tarsi is 
strongly dilated triangularly ; owing to the greater length of the thorax, 
the elytra appear to be comparatively short ; the intromittent organ is 
shaped at apex as in HZ, lythrt. 
On heath (Erica tetralix, &c.); local; Wimbledon, Esher, Mickleham, Woking, 
Chobham ; Hastings; New Forest; Bournemouth; Repton; Chat Moss; York 
(Crotch) ; Scotland, local, Solway and Moray districts; Ireland, near Waterford. 
Herr Weise, in his table of species (l.c. p. 831), mentions this species 
as an inhabitant of Southern Europe, and gives no further description of 
it; on p. 845 he mentions the Graptodera longicollis of Allard as a 
variety of H, oleracea; Allard’s G. erteeti, however (and Weise refers 
