364 PHYTOPHAGA. [Phyllvireta. 
rately rounded at apex, not entirely covering pygidium, thickly and 
confusedly punctured, the punctuation being a little stronger than that 
of thorax ; legs dark, knees and tarsi reddish. L. 25-2? mm. 
Male with the fourth joint of the antenn very strongly dilated, and 
the fifth evidently dilated, and with the last ventral segment depressed 
towards apex. 
On Reseda lutea and Senecio jacobea; local, but common where it occurs; 
Mickleham, Darenth, Shirley, Reigate, Caterham, Chatham, Maidstone, Aylsham, 
Headley Lane, &c.; Wicken Fen; Cromer; Brandon, Suffolk; Birchington ; 
Margate; Portsmouth district; Isle of Wight; Glanvilles Wootton; Swansea ; 
Ticknall Quarry, near Repton, Burton-on-Trent (W. Garneys). 
P. nigripes, /. (/epidii, Koch). A rather long and flat species, of 
a distinct bluish or greenish-blue colour, with the thorax often slightly 
coppery ; head between eyes diffusely and obsoletely punctured in six or 
eight irregular rows, antenne black, similar in the sexes ; thorax half as 
broad again as long, narrowed in front, thickly and very finely punc- 
tured ; elytra long, separately rounded at apex, more finely punctured 
than in any of the allied species; legs black, sometimes partly pitchy. 
L. 21-25 mm. 
On Crucifere ; locally common ; London and southern districts, widely distributed ; 
apparently rare in the Midlands, and not recorded from the northern counties; the 
only Scotch record is ‘ Raehills, Rev. W. Little,’ Murray’s Cat.; Ireland, Howth, 
Dublin, Waterford, and Belfast; the only record from the Midland counties of 
England that I know of is Needwood, near Burton-on-Trent (Rev. H. S. Gorham). 
P. consobrina, Curt. (melena, Ill. et auct. (pars) ). This species is 
allied both to P. punctulata and P. nigripes ; from the former it may be 
known by its stronger metallic reflection and especially by the unieolorous 
black antennz, and from the latter it may be separated by its darker 
colour and evidently stronger punctuation, as well as by the fact that 
the male has the third, fourth, and fifth joints of the antenne not 
strongly, but evidently, incrassate. L. 2-22 mm. 
Sandy and chalky places ; on Crucifere, &c.; as a rule, not common, but, as above 
stated, recorded by the Rev. T. Wood as doing great damage to seedling cabbages, 
brocoli, &c., at St. Peter’s, Thanet ; Mickleham ; Birdbrook, Essex, in abundance 
(Power) ; Maidstone; West Wickham; Norfolk; Hastings; Southsea; New Forest ; 
Isle of Wight; Seaton Down, Devon ; Bristol; Henley; Repton (W. Garneys). 
According to Weise (Naturgesichte der Insecten Deutschlands, vi. 
p. 885), the H. melena of Stephens (Ill. iv. 298, Man. 292) must be 
referred in part to P. proccra, Redt., a species not hitherto recorded as 
sritish ; Stephens’ description is so meagre that it is hard to say how 
this conclusion has been arrived at; it is, however, quite possible that 
the last-named insect may be British, although the probabilities seem 
rather against it, as it is usually found in Central and Southern Europe, 
and is very abundant in North Africa; it israther narrow and depressed, 
obscurely neous, with the antennae, tibiae and tarsi black, and may 
be known from P, consubrina by having the prosternum broader between 
