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C. menthrasti, SuilY. Very like the piccediug in general appearance, 

 but of somewhat more depressed form, and, as a rule, more widened 

 behind; it may also be known by its unicolorous elytra and the fact 

 that the thorax is gradually and gently narrowed in a straight line from 

 :<> apex, and has the disc more strongly punctured ; the elytra aie 

 rather more finely punctured, and usually show faint traces of two 

 slightly elevated lines ; in the male the last ventral segment of tho 

 abdomen is impressed with a central line or fovea, and is truncate and 

 slightly bisinuate at apex, which is furnished with distinct cilia. 1.. 

 7-101 mm . 



On Tanacetum vulgare, Mentha, aquatica, &c. ; very local, but common where it 

 occurs; Westerhara, Kent; D>>ver; Folkestone; Wickeu F'ii ; Selby Oak and 

 Edgbaston, near Birmingham; Burton-on-Trent and Brethy Park and Wood, n.-ir 

 Kepton ; Stephens also records it from Bath, Bristol, Norfolk, and Cumberland ; 

 C. fulgida and C. graminis are recorded in Murray's catalogue from the Clyde and 

 T.iy districts of Scotland, but Dr. Sliarp is of opinion that tbese records perbapa refer 

 to C. menthrasti. 



C. fastuosa, Scop. Oblong oval, rather depressed, of a bright 

 golden-green colour, with the thorax, the suture of elytra more or less 

 broadly, and a longitudinal band on each elytron blue or violaceous ; 

 sometimes the thorax and elytra are more or less coppery, and the suture 

 and bands are bright green; the colour, however, is variable; antennae 

 dark, more or less metallic, with the first four or five joints almost 

 entirely reddish-testaceous; thorax with the sides almost parallel, 

 slightly rounded and narrowed in front, disc diffusely, sides uioro 

 strongly, punctured; elytra at base a little broader than thoiax, mode- 

 rately strongly punctured, with the punctures more regular at suture and 

 sides; legs metallic, tarsi with the last joint produced on each side into a 

 tooth at apex. L. 4|-6 mm. 



Male with the tarsi slightly dilated, and the last vential segment of 

 abdomen sub truncate at apex. 



On LabiatsB, especially Qaleopsis tetrahit and G. ladanum, also by beating white, 

 thorn hedges, and sweeping in grascy places ; local; London district, not common, 

 Darentb Wood, Richmond Park, Ripley ; Deal ; Dover; Hustings ; Snoivdon ili-trict ; 

 Wisbech ; Walsall; Lichfield ; Knoll Hills, Repton ; Kersall, near Manchester ; 

 Carlisle; Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, not common, hut pro- 

 bably generally distributed, as it 1ms been found iu the Solwuy aud Dec district*, 

 and also in the Hebrides aud the Orkney Islands. 



C. cerealis, L. A very beautiful and conspicuous species; oblong 

 oval or elliptic, convex, upper surface of a brilliant fiery red or coppery 

 colour, with three bands on the thorax and the suture and two or three 

 bands on each elytron purple, finely ed;ed with golden green; the vertex 

 nd front of head is also purple or greenish; under-side dark violaceous; 

 antennae dark, with base usually pitchy; thorax with sides almost 

 parallel, slightly raised, distinctly, Imt finely, punctured; elytra modo 

 rately strongly and thickly punctured, with an inteimixture of very tino 

 punct 1 : - dark, usually violaceous; tiiu colour is verv variable in 



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