A'limonia.] PHYTOPHAOA. 331 



II. Colour of upper surface usually fuscous-brown ; antrnnse 

 shorter, with the third joint shorter iu proportion to the 

 second ; thorax less deeply and closely punctured ; size 



smaller .* A. (KLAHDICA, Boh. 



(villa, W. C.) 



A. tanacetl, L. Of a uniform deep black colour, sometimes 

 rather shining, sometimes rather dull, obovate, broad, upper surface almost 

 glabrous, under-side sparingly clothed with dusky grey hairs, punc- 

 tuation of upper surface very coarse, but coarser and stronger in some 

 specimens than in others ; head narrower than thorax, with the frontal 

 tubercles moderately distinct ; thorax twice as broad as long, with 

 anterior angles projecting and posterior angles slightly obtuse, central 

 furrow very broad and shallow ; elytra much widened behind, with 

 raised longitudinal lines which in some specimens are much more con- 

 spicuous than in others; legs moderate. L. 6-10 mm. 



Male with the fifth ventral segment deeply impressed triangularly at 

 apex. 



On Tanacetum vulgare, &c., also in dry sandy and grassy places in various 

 localities; local; London district, not uncommon, Darentb, Epping, Caterham, 

 Beigate ; Shipley ; Hastings ; Eastbourne ; Brighton ; Portsmouth district ; Bourne- 

 mouth ; Bath ; Swansea ; Barmoulh ; Snowdon ; Norfolk ; Bewdley Forest ; 

 Knowle; Coleshill ; Birmingham; Burnt Wood, Staffordshire; Louth, Lincolnshire; 

 Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, occasional, Solway, Tweed, Argryle, 

 and Moray districts ; Ireland, Dublin, Belfast, Antrim, Tyrone, &c. ; Mr. Blatch 

 informs me that he has taken the larva on the Devil's- bit Scabious at Knowlf, and 

 the perfect insect on wild thyme at Barmouth, Ac. ; it is by no means confined to 

 the Tansy; I have taken it on the Llanberis side of Snowdon, where I expect its 

 food plant was wild thyme. 



A. oelandlca, Boh. (villa, W. C. ; rustica, Steph.). Very like the 

 preceding in general shape and appearance, but smaller on the average, 

 and less convex, and of a pitchy-brown or fuscous-brown or sometimes 

 almost brownish-testaceous colour above with the head black ; the 

 antennae are shorter, and the frontal tubercles are rather larger, and the 

 punctuation of the thorax is shallower and less close, and that of tho 

 elytra is not so strong ; legs and under-side black. L. 6-9 mm. 



Male with the fifth ventral segment deeply impressed triangularly at 

 apex. 



On tallows in marshy places ; recorded by Stephens as taken in June and 

 July on the borders of Whittlesea Mere, and always considered extremely rare; in 

 August, 1878, however, Mr. Blatcb found it in numbers in Wicken Fen, but. I 

 believe, it has not been met with since ; the females often hare the abdomen much 

 dilated, so that it raises the elytra and projects beyond them as in Gantrophyta. 



SERMYZiA, Chapuis. (Agelasa, Motschulsky.) 



This genus, which has by many authors been included under Agelcu- 

 tica, is distinguished by having the anterior coxal cavities closed behind; 

 the upper surface, at all events of the elytra, is strongly metallic ; the 



