NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1871. 91 



96. Thyamis Foudrasi, G. E. Crotch, Cat. Biit. Col., 



Ed. % 1866; D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col., 1871. 

 atricapilla, Wat. Cat., Redtenb., AUard (1860), nee 

 Dufts. (= melanocephala, Gyll.) 



M. Allard, in his latest work, Mon. Alt. ("L'Abeille," iii, 

 1866, 385), 217, follows Foudras, Kutschera, and Crotch 

 (Cat. Brit. Col., Ed. 1) in adopting ficiceps, Steph., for 

 this insect, which name, following Wat. Cat., he erroneously 

 quotes as picipes. 



The above proposed change, which has hitherto acciden- 

 tally escaped record, is presumably owing to the fact of 

 Stephens's piciceps being palpably melanocephala^ GylL, — 

 as is, indeed, noticed in the synonymy of Wat. Cat. 



97. Cassida chloris, Suffrian, Stettin. Ent. Zeit., v, 188 ; 



Boheman, Mon. Cassid., i, 384; Redt., Fauna Austr., 

 Ed. 2, 955; D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col.; Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., viii, 84. 

 Specimens of a Cassida taken by Dr. Sharp and Mr. Len- 

 non in the Dumfries district, are different from our other 

 species, and are, in Dr. Sharp's opinion, perhaps to be re- 

 ferred as above. 



C. chloris appears to be allied to sangimioleiita, but to be 

 ovate, with the hinder angles of the thorax acuminate, and 

 its basal portion with metallic lustre, and the base of the 

 elytra blood-red, with metallic elevations. 



98. ScYMNUs LiviDus, Bold, Cat. Ins. Northumb. and 



Durh. (Revision of Coleo2)tera) ,1871, 109 (described). 



A single specimen, found on the sea-banks, near Hartley, 



