﻿such ; and to prevent further confusion I shall here charac- 

 terize it. 



1. C. sanguinolenta Linn. S. N. 2. 708. 22. — Ahr./as. 4^. t. 20. 



Scarcely so large as No. 2, black, elytra with a long scarlet 

 spot at the base of each, a round one on the disc and a narrow 

 lunulate one towartls the apex: abdomen red, banded beneath 

 with bhick, and a row of red spots on each siile of the same 

 colour; apex of thighs and base of tibiae red. 



I took specimens of this insect, which is not found in the 

 North of Europe, at Nismes and Montpellier. 



Linna-His's description oi' C.sanguinolenla is so characteristic, 

 that it is surprising how the two species could have been con- 

 founded ; but Fabricius having once made the error, it lias 

 been echoed by every compiler since, from Dr. Turton to Mr. 

 Stephens. The species were separated by Rossi, and were first 

 recorded as distinct in my Guide.* 



•2. C. vulnerata Eossi. — Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 461. 



Taken in various parts of England in June and July, gene- 

 rally upon the Fern ; but it also frequents grass, the Alder and 

 Sallow. It is not uncommon in open places in the New Forest 

 and Darent Wood. Mr. Dale takes it at Glanville's Wootton ; 

 and Mr. Denny has captured a variety near Cambridge, I un- 

 derstand. 



The Plant is Lijcnpus curopiTus (Water Ilorehound). 



* As there is space for an observation or two, I wish in justice to myself 

 to state, that I am preparing a second edition of my Guide, which cannot 

 fail to resemble Mr. Stephens's Nomenclature, for this palpable reason, — 

 that he has not contented himself with correcting it from my Guide, and 

 copying column after column from it, but he has actually adopted the style 

 and |ilan of my work : so that his book now hears the exact resemblance 

 of mine, and is rather a second edition of my Guide than of his Nomencla- 

 ture ; — a very modest act for one who has brought an action against another 

 for the same trespass! 



I may add, that when I began my Guide, Mr. Stephens, I believe, had 

 no idea of printing a Nomenclature; I therefore could have no intention 

 of interfering with his undertaking ; and in truth my little Guide could 

 not affect the sale of his ponderous Catalogue, and that was not published 

 when the first sheet of the Guide appeared. 



From the assistance promised me by some of our ablest entomologists, 

 I hope to make the second edition of my Guide much better than that pa- 

 rasite which has been grafted upon it, and to render it by far the most 

 useful and complete Catalogue of British bisects that has ever appeared. 



