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 A HISTORY OF KENT Cyclica {continued) < Longitarsus suturellus, Dufts. On Senecio jacobaea; very local. Chattenden,ct.c. var. fuscicoUis, Steph. Locally com- mon — atricillus, L. On Medicago and other low plants ; common — patruelis, All. On Verbascum ; rare. Darenth Wood — melanocephalus, All. By sweeping ; very common — atriceps, Kuts. By sweeping ; rare. Cobham Great Wood, Darenth Wood — distinguendus, Rye. On Teucrium scorodonia and Scrophularia nodosa ; very local and usually rare. Roches- ter district, Wigmore Wood and Bhie Bell Hill — nasturtii, F. On Echium vulgare ; rare. Lee, Darenth Wood, Birch Wood — piciceps, Steph. On Senecio jacobaea ; locally common. Darenth Wood, Chatham — membranaceus, Foudr. (teucrii, All.). On Teucrium scorodonia (the wood- sage) ; local. Wigmore Wood, Dar- enth Wood, Chatham, Gravesend, Dover — ballotas, Marsh. On Ballota nigra and Marrubium vulgare ; locally com- mon. Darenth Wood, Faversham, Chatham, Gravesend, Sheeniess, Birch- ington — waterhousei, Kuts. By sweeping herb- age ; rare. Chattenden, Chatham — exoletus, L. (femoralis, Marsh.). On Echium vulgare and Convolvulus sepium ; locally common. Hailing and Cuxton Downs, Darenth Wood, Sheerness, Whitstahle, Maidstone, Dover — pusillus, Gyll. On Thymus serpyllum ; locally common — tabidus, F. (and var. thapsi, Marsh.). On Verbascum thapsus ; local but not uncommon where it occurs. Cob- ham Park and neighbourhood, Chat- ham, Sevenoaks, Sheerness, Darenth Wood, Dover — jacobaeas, Wat. On Senecio jacobaea (ragwort) ; very common — ochrolcucus. Marsh. By sweeping herbage ; not uncommon — gracilis, Kuts. On Senecio jacobasa ; locally common - — lavis, Duft. On Chrysanthemum, Artemisia, etc. ; locally common and widely distributed 162 'VCLICA [continued) Longitarsus pellucidus, Foudr. On Tri- folium and Mentha ; not common. Darenth Wood, Sheerness, Whitstahle, Maidstone Haltica lythri, Aube. Marshy places, on Epilobium and Lythrum salicaria ; locally common. Snodland, Higham, Maidstone — ampelophaga, Guer. On young hazels in woods ; locally common. Darenth Wood, Chattenden, Wigmore Wood, Birch Wood — oleracea, L. (pusilla. All. nee Duft.). Probably common — pusilla, Duft. (helianthemi. All.). On Helianthcmum and Epilobium; local. Rochester district, Maidstone Hermaeophaga mercurialis, F. On Mer- curialis perennis ; common in woods and hedges Phyllotreta nodicornis. Marsh. On the wild mignonette. Reseda lutea ; com- mon on the chalk, though somewhat local — nigripes, F. (lepidii, Koch). On Crucifcrae ; locally common — consobrina. Curt, (melasna, 111.). Very local and as a rule not common, but taken in great numbers by the Rev. T. Woo^d at St. Peter s [Isle of Thanet), doing injury to cabbage, etc. IVest Wickham, Maidstone — punctulata. Marsh. On Cruciferae ; not common. Margate — atra, Payk. On Cruciferae ; common and generally distributed — cruciferae, Goeze (obscurella. 111.). Locally common. Lee, Dartford, Sheerness, Plunistead, Margate, Rams- gate, Deal — vittula, Redt. On Nasturtium amphi- bium and other Cruciferae ; locally common — undulata, Kuts. On Cruciferae, espe- cially turnips ; this is the ' turnip- fly,' and is only too common — nemorum, L. As the preceding ; very common ; also spoken of as ' the turnip-fly ' — ochripes. Curt. On the hedge mustard (Erysimum alliaria) and other Cruci- ferae ; common and widely distri- buted — sinuata, Steph. On Raphanus rapha- nistrum and other Cruciferae ; rare. Blue Bell Hill [Chatham) and Sheerness — tetrastigma. Com. On Cardamine amara and nasturtium ; locally common. Snodland, Maidstone