294 PHYTOPHACJA. [Cryptocepftdlus. 



By sweeping herbage, &c. ; often found on flowers; locnl, but not uncommon in some 

 districts; Rcigate, Catcrhatn, Kenlcy, Mickleham, Coombe Wood, Esher, Tollbridge, 

 Croydon, Betteshungcr Park (Kent); Chntbnm ; Hastings; Arundel ; Sundown ; 

 Portsmouth district ; New Forest ; GlunvillcB Wootton ; Bath, on Hypericum per- 

 joratum ; Swansea; Llangollen ; Bewdley Forest; Northumberland and Durham 

 district, rare ; Scotland, rare, ou Hypericum, Solwuy, Tweed, and Sutherland 

 district*. 



C. bllineatus, L. A very pretty and distinct little species, which 

 may at once be known by its colour, and the fact that the thorax is 

 very plainly, although finely, strigose, so that it presents a dull appearance; 

 head varying in the sexes, antennae black, with base reddish; thorax 

 black with the anterior and side margins narrowly yellow; elytra 

 yellow with the enture and a longitudinal band on each black, with 

 strong and regular rows of black punctures; legs yellow-red; under-side 

 black. L. 2-3 mm. 



Male with the head yellow, with a central line on forehead black, and 

 with the first jcint of the tarsi dilated ; sometimes, however, the head 

 in this sex is coloured as in female. 



Female with the head black with two yellow frontal spots. 



V. armeniacus, Fald. This variety has two yellow spots before the 

 scntellum. 



By sweeping herbage ; local, but not uncommon in some districts ; Lee, Reigate, 

 Dorking, Mickleham, Caterham ; Whitstable ; Birchington ; Folkestone ; Eastbourne ; 

 Arundt-1 ; Portsmouth district ; Sandown and Freshwater, Isle of Wight ; Bristol ; 

 Norfolk. 



The variety appears to be found with the type ; of seven specimens 

 in my collection, two only belong to the type form. 



C. fulvus, Goeze (minutus, F.). A small species, rather short and 

 broad, of a rufo-testaceous colour, with the elytra yellow, and the suture 

 narrowly infuscate ; the colour, however, varies considerably (although 

 less than in the succeeding species), the elytra being often marked with 

 dark spots at shoulders and sides ; head flat, with two furrows near 

 eyes, unicolorous or with the centre darker, antenna? long, fuscous towards 

 apex ; thorax convex, smooth and shining ; elytra with regular rows of 

 punctures, which are distinct at apex ; prosternum with no labial pro- 

 cess ; under-side black ; legs yellow with the posterior femora sometimes 

 more or less dark. L. 2-3 mm. 



Male with the first joint of the anterior tarsi strongly dilated. 



By sweeping herbage ; local, but not uncommon in some districts ; Weybridge, 

 Caterham, Coombe Wood, Kipley, Forest Hill, Chatham, Cobhain, Sydenham, 

 Kusper, Dulwich, West Wickham, Sheerncss ; Broadstairs ; Hastings ; Hampshire ; 

 Glanvilles Wootton ; Devon ; Barmonth ; Church Stretton ; Askham Bog, York ; 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne (Wailes) ; it has uot been recorded from Scotland. 



C. pusillus, F. Very closely allied to the preceding, with which it 

 is sometimes confused; the colour, however, is more variable, the elytra 

 in extreme varieties being entirely black with only a marginal line and 



