378 i-iivTOi'HAGA. [Mantura. 



V. Crotchi, All. This variety has the elytra ferruginous and slightly 

 Kneous, with the suture brownish; it is probably immature. 



On Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (Ox-eye Daisy) 5 rare; Ashwioken, near Cam* 

 bridge (Power) ; Stretton Moss, Cheshire (Matthews) ; Chat Mosg (Ueston and 

 Chnppell) ; Douglas, Isle of Man (Chappell) ; Stephens records it from the London 

 district, Bristol, and Ruehills near Edinburgh, but it is not iu Dr. Sharp's Scotch 

 list. I have lately received a specimen taken by the Rev. W. Johnaou at Vicars 

 Cairo, co. Armagh, Ireland. 



1*1. obtusata, Gyll. This species very much resembles M. rusfica, 

 but is more convex, and of a unicolorous dark blue colour, with the 

 thorax much duller, the spaces between the punctures, which are dis- 

 tinct, being strongly cross reticulated, a point that will easily distin- 

 guish the species ; the elytra are very convex with rows of rather strong 

 but not deep punctures, which usually become obsolete or very feeble 

 at apex, and the interstices are broad, plainly cross reticulated under a 

 high power, but not so dull as those of the thorax ; antennae and legs 

 much as in M. rustica, anterior femora sometimes pitchy. L. 2|-2| 

 mm. 



Marshy place* ; by sweeping herbage (Helianthemum vulgare, &c.), also in moss and 

 at roots of grass ; local, and, as a rule, rare, but widely distributed, Horsell, Ripley, 

 Ashtead, Cowfold, Cowley, Tilgate $ Hollingbourne and Snodland, Kent ; Maidstone ; 

 Norfolk; Suflblk ; Cambridge Fens, Quy Fen, &c. j Windsor; The Holt, Farn- 

 ham ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Bristol ; Welshpool ; Repton ; Ockbrook, Derbyshire ; 

 Bollin Valley and Bowdon, Cheshire; Heysham, near Lancaster; Ripon ; Scar- 

 borough ; Scotland, local, Solway, Tweed, and Forth districts. 



UK. Matthews!, Curt, (ceraria, Foudr.). Oblong-ovate, strongly 

 convex, shining, of a dark seneous green or bluish-green colour ; occa- 

 sionally the thorax is greenish and the elytra blue ; thorax more thickly 

 and finely punctured than in either of the other species ; elytra with 

 moderately strong rows of punctures, which are continued to apex 

 where they become finer, interstices narrow, very finely alutaceous, but 

 shining ; legs red, posterior femora dark, metallic, anterior and inter- 

 mediate femora and tarsi infuscate ; the closer punctuation, more shining 

 thorax, and the much narrower and more shining interstices of elytra, as 

 well as the smaller size, will easily separate this species from the preced- 

 ing. L. lf-2 mm. 



In chalky places; on Helianthemum vulgare; very local; Reipate, Croydon, 

 Mickleham, Catcrham, Kenley, Chatham, Paver-sham, Maidstone, Bnstry ; Folke- 

 stone ; Cambridge ; Matlock (Blatch) ; it occurs in abundance in some localities in 

 the London district, but I know of no record further north than Matlock, nor has it 

 occurred in any of the western districts. 



OCHROSIS, Foudras. 



This genus is distinguished from Crepidodera and its allies, with 

 which it has usually been included, by having no transverse impression 





