378 PHYTOPHAGA. | Mantura. 
V. Crotchi, All. This variety has the elytra ferruginous and slightly 
zneous, with the suture brownish; it is probably immature. 
On Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (Ox-eye Daisy); rare; Ashwicken, near Cam- 
bridge (Power); Stretton Moss, Cheshire (Matthews); Chat Moss (Reston and 
Chappell) ; Douglas, Isle of Man (Chappell) ; Stephens records it from the London 
district, Bristol, and Raehills near Edinburgh, but it is not in Dr. Sharp’s Scotch 
list. I have lately received a specimen taken by the Rev. W. Johnson at Vicars 
Cairn, co. Armagh, Ireland. 
IM. obtusata, Gyll. This species very much resembles M. rustica, 
but is more convex, and of a unicolorous dark blue colour, with the 
thorax much duller, the spaces between the punctures, which are dis- 
tinct, being strongly cross reticulated, a point that will easily distin- 
guish the species ; the elytra are very convex with rows of rather strong 
but not deep punctures, which usually become obsolete or very feeble 
at apex, and the interstices are broad, plainly cross reticulated under a 
high power, but not so dull as those of the thorax ; antenne and legs 
much as in M. rustica, anterior femora sometimes pitehy. L. 2;-2$ 
mm, 
Marshy places; by sweeping herbage (Helianthemum vulgare, &c.), also in moss and 
at roots of grass ; local, and, as a rule, rare, but widely distributed, Horsell, Ripley, 
Ashtead, Cowfold, Cowley, Tilgate ; Hollingbourne and Snodland, Kent ; Maidstone ; 
Norfolk; Suffolk; Cambridge Fens, Quy Fen, &c.; Windsor; The Holt, Farn- 
ham; Glanvilles Wootton; Bristol ; Welshpool; Repton; Ockbrook, Derbyshire ; 
Bollin Valley and Bowdon, Cheshire; Heysham, near Lancaster; Ripon; Scar- 
borough ; Scotland, local, Solway, Tweed, and Forth districts. 
M. Matthewsi, Curt. (craria, Foudr.). Oblong-ovate, strongly 
convex, shining, of a dark cneous green or bluish-green colour ; occa- 
sionally the thorax is greenish and the elytra blue ; thorax more thickly 
and finely punctured than in either of the other species ; elytra with 
moderately strong rows of punctures, which are continued to apex 
where they become finer, interstices narrow, very finely alutaceous, but 
shining ; legs red, posterior femora dark, metallic, anterior and inter- 
mediate femora and tarsi infuseate ; the closer punctuation, more shining 
thorax, and the much narrower and more shining interstices of elytra, as 
well as the smaller size, will easily separate this species from the preced- 
ing. L. 13-2; mm. 
In chalky places; on Helianthemum vulgare; very local; Reigate, Croydon, 
Mickleham, Caterham, Kenley, Chatham, Faversham, Maidstone, Hastry ; Folke- 
stone ; Cambridge; Matlock (Blatch) ; it occurs in abundance in some localities in 
the London district, but I know of no record further north than Matlock, nor has it 
occurred in any of the western districts. 
OCHROSIS, Foudras. 
This genus is distinguished from Crepidodera and its allies, with 
which it has usually been included, by having no transverse impression 
