326 PHYTOPHAOA. [Lochmtra. 



Female with the fifth ventral segment slightly incised in the middle. 



On young willows and sallows, especially Salix caprea, also on birches ; somewhat 

 locnl, but very widely distributed, and common in the midland dUtricts ; the follow- 

 ing opecies appears to take its place further north, the only Scotch record being from 

 the Sohvay district. Ireland, Dublin and Belfast. 



Xi. suturalis, Thorns. 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 L. caprece, 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. 4-5^ 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 arc uncertain; it also 

 occurs on birches and willows (especially, according to Thomson, on Kalix 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. 



Zi. crataegi, Forst. (sanguined, F.). Oblong, rather short and 

 broad, convex, upper surface sanguineous, under-side black ; head closely 

 punctured, antennas 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 ; scutellum 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 tibiae 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 cortimon 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). 



G-AXiERUCSXiXiA, Crotch. (Galcruca, auct.) 



The name of Galeruca, 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 



