398 PHYTOPHAGA. [ Cassida. 
black, with base lighter; thorax semicircular, with posterior angles 
right angles, base gently sinuate ; elytra with regular rows of rather 
fine punctures, interstices broad and even, suture often almost entirely 
black, the colour, however, being always interrupted. L. 5-7 mm. 
On Inula dysenterica (Fleabane), and Mentha; very local and scarce; Greenwich 
(Stephens); Plaistow Marshes; Cambridgeshire ; Dover; near Sandwich ; Holm 
Bush, Brighton (Power) ; Portsmouth district (Moncreaff) ; Glanvilles Wootton, on 
horse mint (Dale) ; Newton, Devon, scarce ; Braunton Burrows, N, Devon (Blandford). 
C. fastuosa, Schall. (vittata, F., nec Vill.). Oblong-ovate, ferru- 
ginous ; antenne dark towards apex, reddish at base; thorax rather 
long, distinctly punctured at sides, almost smooth and somewhat 
shining in middle, with black spots at posterior angles and on front 
margin and disc, posterior angles marked, base sinuate ; elytra with the 
suture broadly, and irregular patches on each, black, with fine rows of 
punctures, interstices broad aud even; legs black, L. 4-5 mm. 
On Senecio jacobea, very local and rare; Godstone, Surrey (Stephens) ; Green- 
hithe, Kent; Chatham, where a few specimens have been taken from moss in a wood 
in winter by Mr. Champion and Mr. J. J. Walker; Berks, Windsor, Rye, and 
New Forest (Stephens); Peppering Powder-mill Ponds, Hastings (Butler) ; Glan- 
villes Wootton, one specimen, October 1st, 1877, on mint (Dale); Manchester 
(Chappell). 
C.nebulosa, I. Oval, moderately convex, upper surface rust-brown 
or greenish with small black spots dotted over the elytra, under-side 
black with the margins of abdomen testaceous; front of head pale, 
antenne dark, reddish at base ; thorax semicircular, with the posterior 
angles rounded, shallowly and moderately distinctly punctured, sinuate 
at base ; elytra with regular rows of coarse punctures, interstices strongly 
raised; legs, except femora, testaceous. L. 5-6 mm. 
Male more ovate, with the yellowish border of the abdomen narrower, 
and the femora almost entirely black. 
Female with the yellowish border of the abdomen broader, and the 
femora black with a yellowish central line. 
On clover, beetroot, and other low plants ; rare ; Horsell (Power) ; Darenth Wood, 
Monks Wood, and Bottisham near Cambridge (Stephens); Whittlesea Mere (Blateh) ; 
Nocton, near Lincoln (Waterhouse). 
Cc. vibex, F. (liriophora, Kirby; dorsalis, Herbst.). Lroad ovai, 
upper surface green, elytra with the suture broadly pitchy brown or 
blackish, under-side black ; antenne dark, with base pale; thorax 
almost semicircular, with the posterior angles marked, subrugosely 
punctured, less closely on disc than at sides ; elytra with regular rows 
of rather coarse punctures, interstices narrow, the second being some- 
what strongly raised; legs reddish-testaceous, femora almost entirely 
black, L. 5-6 mm. 
By sweeping thistl:s, Centaurea, Serratula arvensis, &e.; local, but not un- 
common where it occurs; Caterham, Micklebam, Ashtead, Darenth Wood, Ton- 
bridge, Faversham, Whitstable, Chatham, Horsell, Bireh Wood, Belvedere ; 
