Phyllobrotica. | PHYTOPHAGA. 323 
in Europe, and the rest in North America, Northern and Central Asia, 
and India, the single Indian species being also recorded under another 
name from Java; they are characterized by having the anterior coxal 
cavities open behind, the elytra without distinct epipleure, and the 
claws of the tarsi appendiculate (furnished with a broad dilatation at 
base); the thorax is subrectangular and parallel-sided, and the scutellum 
is truncate at apex ; the legs are rather long. The extensive exotic 
genus Diabrotica is closely allied to Phyllobrotica, and differs chiefly in 
having the claws cleft, and in the presence of distinct epipleure ; it con- 
tains more than two hundred species, which are chietly confined to 
Central America and the tropical portions of South America. 
P. quadrimaculata, L. Oblong, rather elongate, lighter or darker 
testaceous or yellow, with the head, except front, the metasternum and 
abdomen, and two spots on each elytron, black ; one of these spots is 
situated before apex, and is larger than the other which is near the base; 
head rather large with a distinct central furrow, antennz long, slightly 
fuscous towards apex, eyes large; thorax transverse, parallel-sided, 
almost smooth, considerably narrower than elytra; elytra rather long, 
depressed on disc, very finely punctured ; legs long, testaceous, with the 
tarsi, and sometimes the femora, more or less infuscate. L. 5-7 mm. 
Male with the first joint of the tarsi dilated, and the first four ventral 
segments of the abdomen short, the third and fourth being triangularly 
impressed ; the fifth segment is very large, subtruncate at apex, broadly 
impressed and longitudinally channelled in the middle. 
On Seutellaria galericulata (Common Skulleap),and on Utricularia; it is also 
found on alders; local and, as a rule, not common ; Woking, Esher, Battersea Fields, 
Notting Hill, and Hammersmith Marshes (formerly); Drayton; New Forest ; 
Bristol ; Crymlyn Bog, Swansea; Monks Wood; Ely; near Burton-on-Trent; on 
Utricularia in Raincliffe Bog ,near Scarborough (Lawson); Scotland, Clyde district, 
found on one or two occasions near Glasgow; Ireland, two specimens taken by the 
Rev. W. F. Johnson at Coney Island, Lough Neagh; Weise records it as locally com- 
mon throughout Europe on Scutellaria galericulata. 
The v. munda, Weise, has the subbasal spots of the elytra wanting. 
LUPERUS, Geoffroy. 
In this genus the anterior coxal cavities are open behind, and the 
antenne are long and filiform, in the male usually longer than the body ; 
the thorax is transverse, much narrower than the elytra, and the 
epipleure are narrow and cease behind ; the first joint of the tarsi is 
elongate, longer than the two following together, and narrower than the 
third joint; the claws are short, and widened into a tooth-like dilatation 
at base; the genus contains nearly a hundred species, which are chiefly 
found in the more temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere, 
although a few have been described from LErazil, Ceylon, Cuba, 
&c.; tuirty-eight species are found in Europe, of which three occur in 
Britain. 
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