156 [July, 



referable to A. zctferstedti (Schonli.) Zett. {^ salicicola Kraatz), as 

 might be suspected from the specific name given by the last named 

 author; but I should have hesitated to identify it with Zetterstedt's 

 species in the absence of Continental examples for comparison. Fortu- 

 nately, a male from E. Finland, received from Dr. J. Sahlberg, agreeing 

 Avith the Oxford specimens of the same sex, is contained in my own 

 collection, and the difficulty is thus solved. A. zetterstedti has been 

 described at some length by Zetterstedt (under the generic name 

 Cri/ptophagus), Kraatz, Thomson (under Ancliicera), Ganglbauer, and 

 Keitter; but they do not give the sexual characters, which are more 

 pronounced than in any other species of the genus known to me. The 

 insect is uniformly testaceous or rufo-testaceous in colour (the black 

 e3^es excepted), and separable from pallid examples of the closely allied 

 A.fuscata Schonh. by the more rounded sides of the prothorax (which 

 is relatively wider at the middle), the finer puncturing of the entire 

 upper surface, and the broader ninth and tenth joints of the antennae ; 

 the anterior tibiae are curved hi both sexes, strongly so in c? (almost 

 straight in A.fuscata), armed with a small tooth at the inner apical 

 angle in cT , and in well-developed examples of that sex the}^ are slightly 

 widened in their apical fourth, appearing angulate on their inner edge at 

 the commencement of the dilatation ; and the metasternum bears a small 

 compressed tubercle before the middle. 



Mr. Collins first met Avith A. zetterstedti at Weston-on-the-Green, 

 Oxon, in April 1914, when beating sallows for Acalyptus riijipennis ; 

 ■subsequently, he took it at Yarnton, in May 1916, from sallow catkins, 

 and again, in some numbers, in the same place, on May 15th, 1918, by 

 beating the ripe cottony or downy seed-heads of $ sallows which were 

 breaking up and ready to fall. The insect is recorded from Finland, 

 Germany (Cassel) etc. ; but though its occurrence in sallow-blossom is 

 mentioned b}" nearly all the Continental writers, it does not appear to 

 have been taken very frequently, and the 6 may thus have escaped their 

 observation. 



Horsell. 



Ju7ie \Uh, 1918. 



CHORTOPHILA PILIPTGA Villeneuve IN BRITAIN. 

 BY PERCY H. GEIMSHaW, F.R.S.E., F.E.S. 



Among the number of Anthomj/ildae recently sent to me for 

 determination by Professor J. W. Carr, M.A., of University College, 

 Nottingham, I was pleased to fijid two male examples of CJiortophila 



