376 PHYTOPHAGA, [ Podagrica. 
PODAGRICA, Foudias. 
This genus contains about twenty species, seven of which are found 
in Europe, and the remainder have been described from Morocco, Mada- 
gascar, Syria, North and South America, Java, New Guinea, &c., so that 
the genus is probably much more extensive than is at present known ; 
the species are characterized by having the anterior coxal cavities closed 
behind, the last joint of the maxillary palpi elongate, and the thorax 
narrowly impressed at extreme base just before margin, and with an 
obsolete fold on each side ; there is, however, no impression before base 
as in several genera; our species may be known trom all our other 
Halticide except Crepidodera rufipes by their bright red thorax, and the 
last-mentioned species may easily be distinguished from them by the 
strong transverse impression and folds before base of thorax. 
I. Punctures of elytra coarser and arranged in more distinct 
rows; legs dark; average size smaller . . . . 
II. Punctures of elytra finer and arranged in confused rows ; 
legs red; average size larger . . . .. . =. =. . . P. FUSCICORNIS, L. 
P. FUSCcIPES, LZ. 
P. fuscipes, L. Oblong, rather convex, shining, head and thorax 
red, elytra dark greenish-eeneous, sometimes bluish or violaceous ; head 
with vertex almost smooth, antenne pitechy black with the base red, the 
upper surface of the first joint being often dark ; thorax very transverse, 
twice as broad as long, nearly as broad in front as behind, diffusely and 
finely punctured, the punctuation consisting of larger and smaller punc- 
tures intermingled ; elytra with moderately regular rows of rather strong 
punctures, which become confused and much finer towards apex, inter- 
stices very finely punctured, shining; legs black or pitchy black, with 
the joints usually lighter. L. 23-3} mm, ~ 
On mallows; London district, Kent and Surrey, generally distributed and some- 
times abundant; Pegwell Bay; Dover; Rye; Brighton; Portsmouth district ; 
Isle of Wight; Weymouth; Glanvilles Wootton ; Devon; Weston-super-Mare ; 
South Wales; Huntingdonshire; the only record further north, ‘“‘ Scotland, Dum- 
friesshire, Rev. W. Little,’ Murray’s Cat., is probably in error, 
P. fuscicornis, L. Larger, on an average, than the preceding, and 
easily distinguished by its red legs and the fine rows of punctures on 
elytra, which are more or Jess confused and arranged in indistinct double 
series, the interstices being closely and very finely punctured and rather 
cull ; the thorax is also more finely punctured, and the elytra are always 
cyaneous or violaceous, oecasionally greenish, but never nigro-gneous. 
L. 3-4 mm. 
On mallows; common and generally distributed in the London district, Kent 
and Surrey; Dover; Hastings; Devon; South Wales; Stephens records it from 
near Carlisle, but I have no further record from any place north of Hunstanton, 
Norfolk, where I have found it plentifully in August. 
MANTURA, Stephens. (Balanomorpha, Foudras.) 
This genus may be distinguished by having the thorax at base as 
