Cassida.] PHYTOPHAGA. 399 
Hertford; Ditchingham, Suffolk ; Wicken Fen; Shipley, near Horsham ; Hastings ; 
Holm Bush, Brighton; New Forest; Glanvilles Wootton; Braunton Burrows, N, 
Devon; Bristol; Filey, Yorks (one specimen taken by myself on a thistle on the cliffs) ; 
Liverpool district. 
©. sanguinolenta, F. Short oval, subrotundate, very convex, 
shining, upper surface of a more or less bright green colour, with the 
suture of the elytra, or at least its base, sanguineous, under-side black 
with the border of the abdomen pale; antenne reddish, darker towards 
apex; thorax almost semicircular with the disc finely and regularly 
punctured, the punctures being stronger at sides, posterior angles well 
marked; elytra with regular rows of rather deep punctures, compressed 
at sides, with some of the interstices slightly raised; legs pale. L. 
+-4 mm. 
A variety of this species occurs in which the elytra are unicolorous; 
this cannot well be confused with any other species except C. hemi- 
spherica, from which the regular rows of punctures on the elytra, and the 
colour of the abdomen will at once separate it. 
On thistles and Achillea millefolium, also apparently on other low plants; not 
common; Hammersmith, Forest Hill, Highgate, Horsell, Cowley, Southend, Epping, 
Chatham; Wicken Fen; Cambridge; Deal; Dover; Folkestone; Portsmouth dis- 
trict ; Glanvilles Wootton; Swansea; Salford Priors; Bewdley Forest; Repton ; 
Aigburth clay banks and Wallasey, near Liverpool; Northumberland and Durham 
district, very rare; the variety has occurred at Bushey, Deal, &c. 
C. chloris, Suffr. This species was considered exceedingly doubtful 
as British, until the Rev. H. S. Gorham confirmed it on the authority of 
specimens taken by himself ; according to his note in the Hntomologists’ 
Monthly Magazine, vol. xxii. p. 14, it cannot be compared with any species 
in the British list, except C. sanguinolenta ; from this species it may be 
easily separated by its longer and more parallel build, coarser sculpture, 
and different colour ; in fact, it appears only to resemble it in having a 
reddish base to the elytra, which part, however, is not sanguineous, but 
reddish-brown ; its general colour in life is green, and on the reddish- 
brown part several golden specks may be seen in life; the thorax and 
elytra are rather coarsely punctured, and on the latter the punctures are 
in irregular and somewhat interrupted series, becoming confused towards 
the apex; the legs are yellow ; the body, head, coxe, and thickened part 
of the antenne are black. L. 3;-4 mm. 
Very rare; two specimens taken at Shipley near Horsham out of flood-rubbish 
from the river Adur, and one at Twyford near Winchester by the Rev. H. S. Gor- 
ham ; Scotland, very rare, Solway district, Dumfriesshire (Sharp and Lennon). 
Cc. vittata, Vill., nec F. (oblonga, Ill.). Elongate oval, somewhat 
elliptical, wpper-side greenish, elytra with a common greenish-golden 
metallic stripe at suture, the centre of which is often reddish, under-side 
black, margins of abdomen broadly greenish ; antenne fuscous with base 
light ; thorax semicircular, very finely punctured, with posterior angles 
well marked; elytra rather long, somewhat narrowed towards apex, 
