400 PHYTOPHAGA. [ Cassida. 
with regular rows of rather strong punctures; legs greenish-testaceous. 
L. 43-55 mm. 
On Salicornia and other salt-marsh plants, sometimes also found by pulling up the 
roots; almost always found on or near the coast ; locally common; Chatham, Sheer- 
ness, Gravesend, Southend, Rochester ; Portsmouth district ; Bournemouth ; Lyming- 
ton Salterns; Exmouth and Barnstaple; Bristol; Swansea; Stourport; it has also 
been recorded from Coombe Wood, Fakenham, Ripley (Surrey), and Henley, but 
these records may be in error, as the species seems almost entirely confined to salt 
marshes, 
C. nobilis, L. Allied to the preceding, but easily distinguished by 
its broader-ovate form, and by having the posterior angles of the thorax 
rounded ; upper surface pale greenish-yellow, under-side black with the 
margins of the abdomen light ; antenne dark with base reddish ; thorax 
semicircular, punctured at sides, and nearly smooth on dise, which is 
raised ; elytra with rows of deep punctures, and with a common metallic 
sutural band which is variable in colour, being sometimes silvery bluish, 
sometimes coppery, and sometimes purple or reddish ; the metallic colour 
seems generally to be confined to the second interstice, the suture itself 
being greenish or fuscous ; occasionally striz of the metallic colour are 
visible on the disc of the elytra; legs yellowish, base of femora, and 
rarely the entire femora, black. L. 4-5 mm. 
Chalky and sandy places ; on low plants ; occasionally found in moss; local, but not 
uncommon jin some districts; Hounslow, Caterham, Chobham, Shirley, Ockham 
(Surrey), Walton, Forest Hill, Cowley, Gravesend, Southend, Faversham, Chatham, 
Sheerness ; Harwich; Margate; St. Peter’s; Deal; Folkestone; Dover; Sandwich ; 
Hastings; Southsea; New Forest; Southampton; Portland; Dawlish, Devon (on 
Salicornia); Swansea; Cambridge; Wicken Fen; Whittlesea Mere; Yorkshire ; 
Ireland, Carlingford and Greenore-on-shore on Honckenya peploides (Johnson). 
C. subferruginea, Schrank, ( ferruginea, F.). Oval, upper surface 
ferruginous, sometimes with a feeble metallic reflection, under-side 
black ; antenne pale, fuscous towards apex ; thorax distinctly punctured, 
with posterior angles rounded ; elytra with irregular rows of punctures, 
alternate interstices raised ; legs red, with the base of the femora infus- 
cate; the abdomen appears to be occasionally more or less ferruginous. 
L. 4-5 mm. 
On Achillea millefolium and other low plants; very rare, and somewhat doubtfully 
indigenous; recorded by Stephens from Devonshire, and by Dillwyn from near 
Swansea, 
C. flaveola, Thunb. (obsoleta, Ill.). Ovate, upper surface of a dirty 
yellowish or pale greenish yellow colour, under-side black, abdomen 
usually with a yellowish border; front pale, antenne testaceous, fuscous 
towards apex; thorax smooth or very finely punctured on disc, more 
coarsely at sides, with a depression before scutellum, and with the 
posterior angles rounded ; elytra with regular rows of strong punctures ; 
legs testaceous. L. 33-43 mm, 
In rare cases the thorax has a fuscous spot behind, and the elytra are 
slightly infuscate towards base, 
