370 PHYTOMIAGA. 



PODAORICA, Foudrus. 



This genus contains about twenty species, seven of which are fouml 

 in Europe, and the remainder have been described from Morocco, Mada- 

 gascar, Syria, North and South America, Java, New Guinea, Ac., so that 

 the genus is probably much more extensive than is at present known ; 

 the species are characterized by having the anterior coxal cavities closed 

 behind, the last joint of the maxillary palpi elongate, and the thorax 

 narrowly impressed at extreme base just before margin, and with an 

 obsolete fold on each side ; there is, however, no impression before base 

 as in several genera ; our species may be known from all our other 

 llalticidae except Crepidodera rufipes by their bright red thorax, and the 

 last-mentioned species may easily be distinguished from them by the 

 strong transverse impression and folds before base of thorax. 



I. Punctures of cl.vtra courser and arranged in more distinct 



rows ; 1-ga dark ; average size smaller P. pusoiPBS, L. 



II. Punctures of elytra finer and arranged in confused rows; 



legs red ; average size larger P. FUSCICORNIB, L. 



P. tuscipes, L. Oblong, rather convex, shining, head and thorax 

 red, elytra dark greenish-aeneous, sometimes bluish or violaceous ; head 

 with vertex almost smooth, antennae pitchy black with the Imse red, the 

 \ipper surface of the first joint being often dark ; thorax very transverse, 

 twice as broad as long, nearly as broad in front as behind, diffusely and 

 finely punctured, the punctuation consisting of larger and smaller punc- 

 tures intermingled ; elytra with moderately regular rows of rather strong 

 punctures, which become confused and much finer towards apex, inter- 

 stices very finely punctured, shining ; legs black or pitchy black, with 

 the joints usually lighter. L. 2^-3^ mm. 



On mallows ; London district, Kent and Surrey, generally distributed and some- 

 times abundant ; Pegwell Bay ; Dover ; Kye ; Brighton ; Portsmouth district ; 

 I*le of Wight; \Yeymoutli j Glanvilles Wootton ; Devon; Weston-snper-Mare ; 

 South Wales; Huntingdonshire; the only record further north, "Scotland, Dum- 

 friesshire, Rev. W. Little," Murray's Cat,, is probably in error. 



P. tuscicornis, L. Larger, on an average, than the preceding, and 

 easily distinguished by its red legs and the fine rows of punctures on 

 t-lytra, which are more or less confused and arranged in indistinct double 

 series, the interstices being closely and very finely punctured and rather 

 t'ull ; the thorax is also more finely punctured, and the elytm are always 

 cyaneous or violaceous, occasionally greenish, but never nigro-seneous. 

 L. 3-4 mm. 



On mallows j common and generally distributed in the London district, Kent 

 and Surrey; Dover; Hastings; Devon; South Wales; Stephens records it from 

 near Carlisle, but I have no further record from any place north of Huustanton, 

 Norfolk, where I have found it plentifully in August. 



IVIANTURA., Stephens. (Balanomorpha, Foudras.) 

 This gcuus may be distinguished by having the thorax at base as 



