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long had specimens so named in my collection (the insect 

 being very common), but refrained from bringing the species 

 forward, as I felt, and still feel, quite convinced that it is 

 nothing but a form of the variable insect hitherto known to 

 us as oleracea^ and which we are now told, both by M. 

 Allard and Herr Kutschera, is pusilla, Dufts. G. pusillay 

 Dufts., is considered by Herr Kutschera as identical with 

 the subsequently described G. helianthemi, All., which, how- 

 ever, is placed by that author in a different section of the 

 genus from pitsilla. There seems very little doubt that this 

 genus is not yet thoroughly well known ; Herr Kutschera 

 himself being dissatisfied with the determinations hitherto 

 made concerning its members, and desiring to re-examine the 

 group. This seems disheartening, after so many attempts 

 have already been made, and perplexing changes of names 

 insisted upon. To say nothing of older and general authors, 

 we have recently had Foudras, Kutschera and Allard (the 

 latter in two separate publications) especially devoting their 

 energies to the Salticidmj the result being a complication of 

 contradictions and in many cases an accumulation instead of 

 a dispersion of difficulties. To complete the *' embrouille- 

 ment," Thomson, in his recently published vol. viii. of 

 Skand. Col. differs from all of them in many points. 



With regard to Graptodera in general, I may remark 

 that Herr Kutschera corroborates the consobrina of Wat. 

 Cat., which M. Allard terms lythri; be agrees with M. 

 Allard in corroborating ampelophaga, Wat. Cat. (which, 

 however, 7Jiust be coryli^ from its constant habitat, — or else 

 coryli and ampelophaga cannot be specifically distinct) ; he 

 agrees with M. Allard in ericeti ; he names what is appa- 

 rently a small ericeti as longicollis, Allard, and considers 

 the now well-known parallel-sided insect with strongly 

 patellated front tarsi (which Mr. Crotch has informed us 



