384 riiYToriiAOA. [ffippuriphifa 



impression on each side ; olytra broader ut base than thorax, produced 

 into a common blunt point at apex, with shoulders strongly marked, 

 punctuation in rather strong rows, which become obsolete towards apex, 

 interstices broad, almost smooth ; legs stout, testaceous, posterior 

 femora infuscate ; the sculpture and general colour is somewhat variable. 

 L. lf-2i mm. 



Marshy places; on Equiaetum artienae : local, but common where it occurs; it 

 appears to be widely distributed throughout England nnd Scotland, and probably also 

 in Ireland. I used to take it abundantly at Repton, but only in one spot in a marshy 

 place near some osier beds,' and I never found a specimen elsewhere in the district. 



EFITRIX, Foudras. 



The members of this genus are easily distinguished from all the allied 

 genera by having the elytra set with distinct rows of hairs ; the thorax 

 as in Crepidodera is furnished with a transverse impression at base 

 bounded on each side by a longitudinal impression or fovea ; the 

 posterior coxae as in the preceding genus are widely distant ; in tho 

 Munich catalogue published in 1876, twenty-six species are described 

 as belonging to this genus, and in the supplement of M. Duvivier 

 exactly this number are added ; with the exception of three from 

 Europe and one from Jerusalem, they are all described from North 

 Central and South America or adjacent islands; a species has latch 

 been brought before the Entomological Society (at the meeting held June 

 6(h, 1888) as doing considerable damage to young egg-plants and tobacco- 

 plants in the Island of Trinidad. 



I. Upper surface unicolorous black ; average size larger . . E. PPBESCKNS, Koch. 



II. Elytra black with two variable reddish 'yellow spots on 



each | average size smaller E. ATEOP., Foudr. 



E. pubcscens, Koch. Ovate or oblong-ovate, with the sides of I ho 

 olytra subparallel towards base, convex, rather dull, black ; head finely 

 punctured, antennas testaceous at base, fuscous towards apex ; thorax 

 short, very transverse, with a moderate transverse furrow at base 

 bounded on each side by a deep fovea, thickly, distinctly, and deeply 

 punctured; elytra with shoulders slightly prominent, narrowed ami 

 obtusely rounded together at apex, with regular and rather strong rows 

 of punctures, interstices furnished with very fine rows of punctures and 

 of short but distinct ashy hairs; legs testaceous, posterior femora and 

 base of anterior and intermediate femora dark. L. l|-lf mm. 



V.ferruginea. Upper surface entirely ferruginous, with the suture 

 and extreme margins of elytra dark. 



On Solanum dulcamara ; extremely local ; Shipley near If orsham, abundant 

 (Gorhnm); Cowfold near Horsham, end* of May 1873 (Power); Kt-nt (J. J. \Valkn); 

 Sheppey ; Whittlesea Mere. The variety is very rare, but Mr. Rye records two 

 indigenous examples, without mentioning locality. 



E. atropee, Foudr. Smaller, shorter, and more ovate than the piv- 



