384. PHYTUOPHAGA. [ Tippuriphila. 
impression on each side ; elytra broader at base than thorax, produced 
into a common blunt point at apex, with shoulders strongly marked, 
punctuation in rather strong rows, which become obsolete towards apex, 
interstices broad, almost smooth; legs stout, testaceous, posterior 
femora infuscate ; the sculpture and general colour is somewhat variable. 
L, 13-2; mm. 
Marshy places; on Equisetum arvense ; local, but common where it occurs ; it 
appears to be widely distributed throughout England and Scotland, and probably also 
in Ireland. I used to take it abundantly at Repton, but only in one spot in a marshy 
place near some osier beds, and I never found a specimen elsewhere in the district. 
EPITRIX, Foudras. 
The members of this genus are easily distinguished from all the allied 
genera by having the elytra set with distinct rows of hairs; the thorax 
as in Crepidodera is furnished with a transverse impression at base 
bounded on each side by a longitudinal impression or fovea; the 
posterior cox as in the preceding genus are widely distant ; in the 
Munich catalogue published in 1876, twenty-six species are described 
as belonging to this genus, and in the supplement of M. Duvivier 
exactly this number are added; with the exception of three from 
Europe and one from Jerusalem, they are all described from North 
Central and South America or adjacent islands; a species has lately 
been brought before the Entomological Society (at the meeting held June 
6th, 1888) as doing considerable damage to young egg-plants and tobacco- 
plants in the Island of Trinidad. 
I. Upper surface unicolorous black ; average size larger . . E, PUBESCENS, Koch. 
II, Elytra black with two variable reddish-yellow spots on 
each ; average size smaller . E. atRop#, Foudr. 
E. pubescens, Koch. Ovate or oblong-ovate, with the sides of the 
elytra subparallel towards base, convex, rather dull, black ; head finely 
punctured, antennz testaceous at base, fuscous towards apex ; thorax 
short, very transverse, with a moderate transverse furrow at base 
bounded on each side by a deep fovea, thickly, distinctly, and deeply 
punctured; elytra with shoulders slightly prominent, narrowed and 
obtusely rounded together at apex, with regular and rather strong rows 
of punctures, interstices furnished with very fine rows of punctures and 
of short but distinct ashy hairs; legs testaceous, posterior femora and 
base of anterior and intermediate femora dark, L. 13-1{ mm. 
V. ferruginea. Upper surface entirely ferruginous, with the suture 
and extreme margins of elytra dark. 
On Solanum duleamara; extremely local; Shipley near Horsham, abundant 
(Gorham); Cowfold near Horsham, end of May 1873 (Power); Kent (J. J. Walker); 
Sheppey; Whittlesea Mere. The variety is very rare, but Mr. Rye records two 
indigenous examples, without mentioning locality. 
E. atrope, Foudr. Smaller, shorter, and more ovate than the pre- 
