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rated from J. caprece, as not uncommon with us on 

 heather. 



Thomson's characters for it, compared with that insect, 

 are its shining forehead, which is more sparingly and strongly 

 punctured, with the facial tubercles polished and sharply 

 defined behind, its more shining and laterally more sparingly 

 punctured thorax, the fuscous suture of its elytra, and the 

 thicker and longer hairs on the 2nd and 3rd segments of 

 the abdomen in the male. He states it to occur in Salix 

 repens. 



I have found insects agreeing with Thomson's description 

 on Wimbledon Common ; but, as Mr. Crotch remarks, they 

 always occurred on heath. These I have hitherto referred 

 to Stephens' G. caprecB^ var. ? saturatay with which they 

 appear to be identical. -Without laying any claim to merit 

 on the part of Stephens in the present instance, I may ob- 

 serve that it seems curious that so many of his insects should 

 be recorded as good and undescribed species, long after he 

 had, as he fondly imagined, " marked them for his own." 

 Perhaps (as in the well known advice to an incompetent 

 judge), if he had given his opinion without his reasons, many 

 of his species might have been allowed to stand, seeing that 

 the Fabrician (and other equally obscure) enigmas are 

 deemed sufficient for authentication. 



57. Graptodera Montana, Foudras, Alt., 1860, 295 ; 

 Allard, ]861, 315, "L'Abeille," 51 (Mon.); G. R. 

 Waterhouse, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. v, p. 163. 

 cognatUf Kutsch, p. 163. 

 An insect sent by Mr. Waterhouse to Herr Kutschera as 

 apparently differing from the G. oleracea of his "Cata- 

 logue " has been returned as G. montanay Foudr. I have 



