392 PHYTOPH AGA. [ Psylliodes. 
On Evrysimum, Stnapi, and other Cruciferze ; very rare; Mickleham (Rye), one 
specimen ; Mr. Saunders has one or two specimens without locality from Mr. Croteh’s 
collection ; there is an old specimen without locality in Dr. Power’s collection; Mr. 
Rye gives the following note on tlie species in the Entomologists’ Annual for 1869, 
p- 61: “The P. picipes of Mr. Waterhonse’s catalogue (a single specimen), long 
suspected to be not identical with picipes, Redt., has been returned as P. instabilis 
by Herr Kutschera. I am guite unable, beyond a slight colour difference, to sepa- 
rate this specimen from that hitherto representing picipes in my own collection, 
and which, from possessing intermediate links, I think is only a variety of that 
common insect now called herbacea by Allard, but cuprea by Kutschera.”? My single 
specimen, given me by Mr, E. Saunders, seems distinct, but, as Mr. Rye observes, P. 
euprea is very variable, and it is doubtful if all the allied European species are really 
distinct. 
P. affinis, Payk. (exolela, Ill.; atricilla, Panz.). Oblong-ovate, 
moderately convex, head black, thorax reddish-testaceous, elytra 
testaceous with suture dark, metasternum and abdomen black; head 
almost impunctate, antenne entirely testaceous ; thorax in the male 
about half as broad again as long, in the female nearly twice as broad as 
long, with sides somewhat callose at anterior angles, more or Jess thickly 
and rather finely punctured ; elytra broadest just behind shoulders, with 
rows of rather strong and deep punctures, which become much finer 
towards apex, interstices very finely punctured ; legs testaceous, posterior 
femora dark, somewhat angularly dilated on their inferior margin. 
L. 23-23 mm. 
On Wollditien dulcamara and other Solanacez ; somewhat local, but common where 
it occurs, and generally distributed in England and Ireland; it is not recorded from 
Scotland, although Bold mentions it as ‘ local, but abundant where found” in the 
Northumberland and Durham district. 
P. marcida, II]. (operosa, Foudr.; pallidipennis, Ros.). Oblong- 
ovate, moderately convex, entirely testaceous, with the elytra often 
lighter than the head and thorax ; the upper surface usually presents an 
wneous reflection, and the head and more or Jess of the under-side are 
sometimes pitchy ; the posterior femora are marked with an indistinct 
dark spot at apex, and occasionally are altogether pitchy; head closely 
and strongly punctured, antennge sometimes slightly brownish towards 
apex ; thorax convex, transverse, narrowed in front, thickly and strongly 
punctured, the punctuation being rugose at the sides; elytra depressed 
on dise, with rather fine and closely punctured strie, interstices broad, 
very finely punctured, lateral margin furnished with short cilia. 
L. 3-4 mm. 
Sandy coasts; on (xambe maritima, Cakile maritima, and Cochlearia officinalis ; 
local; Lond«n district, rare, Sheerness; Southend; Walton-on-Naze; Harwich ; 
Lowestoft ; Camber sand bills, Hastings; Southsea; Dorset; Scilly Islands (J. J. 
Walker); Tenby; Barmouth; Hunstanton; Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire; Spurn 
Point ; Scarborough; Wallasey, Cheshire; Holy Island; Northumberland and 
Durham district, abundant; Scotland, Tweed and Forth districts; Ireland, Port- 
marnock, 
P. dulcamare, Koch. A rather short and broad species, ovate, 
conyex, of a nigro-cee1uleous or cyaneous colour, antenne black with 
