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these species, and specimens that I have been accustomed to regard as type 

 G. sagittarite certainly have the sutural apical angle slightly produced in 

 a point, so that I still feel some doubt as to their distinctness, although 

 ordinary specimens of the two species certainly look quite different. 

 L. 4-5 mm. 



Marshy places ; on Lysimachia vitlgaris, Hydrocharit morsvs-ranae, Hypericum 

 quadrangulum, Ac. ; also on rashes ; local, bat not uncommon where it occurs, and 

 distributed much as the preceding species; it appears to be rarer or rather more local 

 in the north of England, and the only Scotch record is Sohvny district, Dabton Loch, 

 Thoruhill, near Dumfries, in numbers (Sharp). 



G. lineola, F. Oblong, subparallel, rather depressed, of a dull 

 yellowish-testaceous colour, with the apex of the joints of the antennae, 

 the vertex of head, the scutellum, the meso- and metasternum, and the 

 abdomen, except apex, black ; in general appearance it much resembles 

 the preceding species, from which it may be at once known by its dull 

 and much more closely pubescent thorax, somewhat narrower and more 

 parallel elytra, and by having the apical sutural angle of the elytra with- 

 out a trace of a prolongation ; from the two following species it may be 

 distinguished by its more elongate and parallel-sided elytra, and by the 

 fact that the epi pleurae cease a little before apex of elytra ; varieties 

 occur in which the humeral callosity and an obscure black band on each 

 elytron are brownish or blackish, but as a rule the elytra are quite im- 

 maculate. L. 4-5 mm. 



The sexual characters are much as in the preceding species. 



On willows, especially Salix viminalis, also on alders and hazels ; I used to find it 

 abundantly in osier beds near Repton, Burton-on-'l rent ; it appears, however, to be 

 more local than several of the other species; Greenhithe; Wokiug ; Brentford; 

 Hastings; Portsmouth district ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Exeter; Bristol; Swansea; 

 Wicken Fen; Burwell Fen; Cheshire; Ireland, near Waterford (I'ower), and 

 Armagh (Johnson); the only Scotch record is " Raehills, Rev. W. Little," Murray's 

 Cat., and I feel very doubtful as to the Northumberland specimens, as thote at first 

 recorded were shown by Mr. Crotch to be G. tenella, and Bold quotes the only ones 

 be appears to know of as synonymous with G. lythri, which is apparently synonymous 

 with G-. calmariensitf L. 



G>. calmariensis, L., nee F. (lythri, Gyll. ; aquntica, Mull.). 

 Smaller than the preceding species, frum which it may be known by 

 having the epipleune of the elytra continued to apex, and the sutural 

 apical angles mucronate ; the punctuation of the elytra also is much 

 coarser ; from G. tenella it may be distinguished by its larger size, 

 more closely pubescent thorax and darker antennae, and also by the 

 deeper punctuation of the elytra ; the usual colour is testaceous yellow, 

 with the vertex, central line of thorax, scutellum, a well-marked longi- 

 tudinal band on each elytron, and the breast and abdomen (except aj>. x) 

 black ; the antennae are dark with the base red ; the colour, however, is 

 variable, the elytral bands being sometimes wanting, in which case, 

 however, the humeral callosities usually remain dark; the thorax is 



