304 PHYTOPHAGA. [ Chrysomela. 
Female with the elytra presenting a dull and somewhat silky appear- 
ance, and the interstices between the larger punctures slightly raised, 
and the last ventral segment of the abdomen even. 
In sandy and grassy places, especially near rivers and streams; rare; Southend ; 
Pegwell Bay, Kent; Swansea; Birmouth ; Northumberland district, Cheviots, &. ; 
Scotland, rare, Solway, Forth, Dee, and Moray districts (Edinburgh, Knockleith, 
Braemar, &c.); it is widely distributed over Europe and North Atrica and the 
northern half of Asia. 
Cc. Banksi, F. The largest of our British species ; form broad and 
short oval, rather depressed, upper surface very shining, bright bronze, 
often with an olivaceous reflection, antennz, mouth parts, and sometimes 
front of head and sides of thorax, and the legs, lighter or darker red or 
ferruginous ; head diffusely punctured ; thorax narrowed in front, with 
sides strongly raised, dise very finely punctured, almost smooth; elytra 
very irregularly and more or less coarsely punctured, the punctures being 
thicker and larger towards sides; towards suture the punctures are 
smaller, and sometimes arranged in rows; the punctuation, however, is 
very variable; prosternum narrow between cox; legs rather long. L. 
7-11 mm. 
Male with the last joint of the palpi and the tarsi moderately dilated, 
and the fifth ventral segment truncate. 
Chalky and sandy places; on grass stems, &c.; local, but not uncommon where it 
occurs; Dartford, Plumstead, Gravesend, Belvedere, Darenth, Birch Wood; Colches- 
ter; Southend; Folkestone; Dover ; Hastings ; Portsmouth district ; Isle of Wight ; 
Weymouth ; Devonshire, Exeter, Ilfracombe, &c.; Isle of Man; Scotland, extremely 
rare, Clyde district, “ Ayrshire, McNab ;” Ireland, Dublin, Wicklow, Carlingford, &c. 
C. staphylea, L. (lepida, Steph.). Oval, convex, male of squarer 
form and more shining than the female, entirely ferruginous, usually 
with a bronze or slight olivaceous reflection ; head diffusely and finely 
punctured ; thorax very transverse, with sides strongly raised, disc very 
finely punctured ; elytra not strongly punctured in irregular double 
rows; prosternum rather broad between the coxe ; legs moderately long. 
L. 6-8 mm. 
Male with the tarsi and the last joint of the palpi moderately dilated, 
and the fifth ventral segment of abdomen truncate at apex. 
By sweeping herbage ;_ often found in moss and crawling on the stems of grass; 
cominon and generally distributed throughout the kingdom as far north as the Shet- 
land Islands. 
Dr. Sharp has taken a dull variety of this species in salt marshes in 
the Solway district, in some numbers, which has no metallic refleetion, 
andthe head and dise of thorax nearly impunctate ; the double rows 
of punctures on the elytra are coarser and more distinct, and the 
general size is smaller ; this variety in some points agrees with v. Lederi, 
Weise, but that insect has the upper surface olivaceous, whereas the 
specimens taken by Dr. Sharp are dull ferruginous with the thorax 
usually darker. I therefore propose for it the name of v. Sharp?. 
