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, Si*api, and other Cruciferte ; wry rnre ; Mickleham (Rye), one 

 specimen ; Mr. Saunders has one or two specimens withont locality from Mr, Crotch's 

 collection ; tltero is an old specimen without locality in Dr. Power's collection ; Mr. 

 Rye gives the following note on the species in the Entomologists' Annual for lN'>:t. 

 p. 61: "The P. picipes of Mr. Waterhouse's catalogue (a single specimen), long 

 suspected to be not identical with picijtes, Redt., has been returned as P. inntabilia 

 by Herr Kutschera. I urn quite unable, beyond a slight colour difference, to sepa- 

 rnte 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 Tierbacea by Allard, butcnprea by Kutschera." My single 

 specimen, given me by Mr. E. Saunders, seems distinct, but, AS Mr. Rye observes, /'. 

 cuprea is very variable, and it is doubtful if all the allied European species are really 

 distinct. 



P. affinis, Payk. (esolefa, 111.; atricilla, Panz.). Oblong-ovutr, 

 moderately convex, head black, thorax reddish-testaceous, elytra 

 testaceous with suture dark, metasternum and abdomen black ; he;id 

 almost impunctate, antennae 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 less 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 h'riely punctured ; logs testaceous, posterior 

 femora dark, somewhat angularly dilated on their inferior margin. 

 L. 2i-2f mm. 



On Solantim dulcamara and other Solanaceae ; 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, 111. (operosa, Foudr. ; pallidifennis, Eos.). Oblong- 

 ovate, moderately convex, entirely testaceous, with the elytra often 

 lighter than the head and thorax ; the upper surface usually presents an 

 aeneous reflection, and the head and more or less of the under-side are 

 sometimes pitchy ; the posterior femora are marked Avith an indistinct 

 dark spot at apex, and occasionally are altogether pitchy; head elc.-ely 

 and strongly punctured, antennae sometimes slightly brownish towards 

 apex ; thorax convex, transverse, narrowed in front, thickly and strongly 

 punctured, the punctitation being rugose at the sides; elytra depressed 

 on disc, with rather fine and closely punctured striae, interstices brood, 

 very finely punctured, lateral margin furnished with short cilia. 

 L. 3-4 mm. 



Sandy coasts; on Cramle maritime, Cakile marifivta, and Cochltaria (rfflcittalig ; 

 local; Londi n district, rare, Sheerness ; Soutlitud ; Walton-on-Naze; Harwich; 

 I,<nvestoft ; Camber eaud hills, Hastings ; Southern ; Dorset; Scilly Islands (J. J. 

 Walker); Ten by ; Barmouth ; Hnnstanton; Mablctborpe, Lincolnshire; Spurn 

 Point; Scarborough ; Wallasey, Cheshire; Holy It-land ; Northumberland and 

 Durham district, abundant; Scotland, Tweed mid Forth districts; Ireland, Port- 

 marnock. 



P. dulcamarae, Koch. A rather short and broad species, ovate, 

 convex, of a uigro-cociulcous or cyancous colour, antenna black with 



