294 PHYTOPHAGA. [ Cryptocephalus. 
By sweeping herbage, &e. ; often found on flowers ; local, but not uncommon in some 
districts; Reigate, Caterham, Kenley, Mickleham, Coombe Wood, Esher, Tonbridge, 
Croydon, Betteshanger Park (Kent); Chatham; Hastings; Arundel; Sandown ; 
Portsmouth district; New Forest; Glanvilles Wootton; Bath, on Hypericum per- 
foratum; Swansea; Llangollen; Bewdley Forest; Northumberland and Durham 
district, rare; Scotland, rare, on Hypericum, Solway, Tweed, and Sutherland 
districts. 
C. bilineatus, L. A very pretty and distinct little species, which 
may at once be known by its colour, and the fact that the thorax is 
very plainly, although finely, strigose, so that it presents a dull appearance; 
head varying in the sexes, antenne black, with base reddish; thorax 
black with the anterior and side margins narrowly yellow; elytra 
yellow with the snture and a longitudinal band on each black, with 
strong and regular rows of black punctures; legs yellow-red; under-side 
black. L. 2-3 mm. 
Male with the head yellow, with a central line on forehead black, and 
with the first jcint of the tarsi dilated ; sometimes, however, the head 
in this sex is coloured as in female. 
Female with the head black with two yellow frontal spots. 
V. armeniacus, Fald. This variety has two yellow spots before the 
scutellum. 
By sweeping herbage ; local, but not uncommon in some districts ; Lee, Reigate, 
Dorking, Mickleham, Caterham ; Whitstable ; Birchington ; Folkestone; Eastbourne ; 
Arundel; Portsmouth district; Sandown and Freshwater, Isle of Wight; Bristol; 
Norfolk. 
The variety appears to be found with the type; of seven specimens 
in my collection, two only belong to the type form. 
C. fulvus, Goeze (minutus, F.). A small species, rather short and 
broad, of a rufo-testaceous colour, with the elytra yellow, and the suture 
narrowly infuscate; the colour, however, varies considerably (although 
less than in the succeeding species), the elytra being often marked with 
dark spots at shoulders and sides; head flat, with two furrows near 
eyes, unicolorous or with the centre darker, antenne long, fuscous towards 
apex ; thorax convex, smooth and shining ; elytra with regular rows of 
punctures, which are distinct at apex; prosternum with no labial pro- 
cess; under-side black ; legs yellow with the posterior femora sometimes 
more or less dark. L. 2-3 mm. 
Male with the first joint of the anterior tarsi strongly dilated. 
By sweeping herbage; local, but not uncommon in some districts ; Weybridge, 
Caterham, Coombe Wood, Ripley, Forest Hill, Chatham, Cobham, Sydenham, 
Rusper, Dulwich, West Wickham, Sheerness; Broadstairs ; Hastings ; Hampshire ; 
Glanvilles Wootton; Devon; Barmonth; Church Stretton ; Askham Bog, York ; 
Newcastle-on-Tyne (Wailes) ; it has not been recorded from Scotland. 
C. pusillus, F, Very closely allied to the preceding, with which it 
is sometimes confused; the colour, however, is more variable, the elytra 
in extreme varieties being entirely black with only a marginal line and 
