Lehia.] ADEPHAGA. 137 



ii. Palpi reddish testaceous. 



1. Strisi! of elytra imlistinct ; interstices flat . . . L. H.lJMOimnoiDALiS, F. 



2. Striaj of elytra well marked; interstices convex L. tubcica, F. 



Zi. cyanocephala, L. Head, breast, abdomen and elytra bluish 

 green, blue, or violet, shining ; head thickly ])Unctiired, anlennaj black, 

 basal joint reddish, sometimes darker on upper surface ; thorax testaceous 

 red, short and broad, dillusely punctured, with sides rounded in front, 

 contracted at base, posterior angles prominent ; scutellum dark ; elytra 

 broad, widened behind, with feeble punctured stria?., interstices punc- 

 tured ; base of femora and central portion of tibite red, the rest black or 

 pitchy, with a more or less metallic tinge. L. 5-7 mm. 



Very local and not common ; clialky places, under stones, in moss, &c. ; occasionally 

 taken hy &\\w]nug Ui/periciim ; cliitlk-liills near Iicitrale, especially Hucklaml Hill; 

 Micklebam ; liipley ; Darouth Wood; Dover; Bournemouth; near Darlington, 

 Yorkshire. 



Ii. chlorocephala, HofF. Easily distinguished from the preceding 

 by having the tlrst three joints of the antennae,* the entire femora, the 

 breast, and scutellum red ; briglit green or greenish-blue ; thorax rather 

 longer than in the allied species, with sides rather more contracted 

 behind ; the elytra are more finely punctured, but in this point there is 

 some variation in dilferent specimens ; legs red, tarsi and base of tibia? 

 fuscous black. L. 4-7 mm. 



Under stones, and in moss ; also found on broom and beneath junipers ; Kent 

 (Folkestone, Chalham, Dartford, Kainliani) ; Surrey (Rciijate, Kipk'V, Caterliam, 

 VV'alton-on-Thames, Shirley, liox Hill, Kenlcj- (occasionally in abundance beneath 

 junipers in winter) ) ; Lewes; Hastings; Tonbridge ;.Kew Forest; Dorset; Bourne- 

 mouth; Bath; Sealon, Devonshire ; Swansea; Bentiey, Siillolk; St. Osyth and Col- 

 chester, Essex; Kepton, Burton-on-Treut ; Church Stretion, Cheshire; Yorkshire, 

 widely distributed ; Northumberland and Durham ; Scotland rare, about broom, but 

 occurs from the Solway to Sutherland in Lowland districts ; also found in L'eland, 

 Armagh, &c. 



A small and constant race of this species Avhich is found at Shirley, 

 liirch Wood, lligham (Kent), and other places, is perhaps identical with 

 Lebia chrysocfjjhala, j\lots., wliicli is said to be of the same colour and 

 build as L. chlorocejihala, but smaller, with the elytra a third shorter, 

 and the thorax less transverse ; there is also a difference in the punctua- 

 tion of the interstices, but in the species of the sub-genus Lawi^rias 

 this cannot be relied upon as a character, as has been shown above. Dr. 

 Power once took eighty specimens of this variety at Gamlinghay near 

 Cambridge, without taking one of the type form. 



Zi. crux-minor, L. Head black, strongly punctured ; antennae fus- 

 cous, with tile lirst three joints and base of the fourth red ; thorax red- 

 dish-testaceous, small, short, very transverse, posterior angles prominent ; 

 scutellum black ; elytra broad, orange testaceous, with suture, a triangular 

 patch round sc\;tellum, a broad waved band just liehind middle, and 



* The third joint is usually more or less fuscous at apex. 



