898 PHYTOPIIAGA. 



black, with base lighter; thorax semicircular, with posterior nngh's 

 right angles, base gently sinuate ; elytra with regular rows of rather 

 fine punctures, interstices broad and even, suture often almost entirely 

 black, the colour, however, being always interrupted. L. 5-7 mm. 



On Inula dysentvrica (Fleabane), nnd Mentha ; very local and scarce; Greenwich 

 (Stephens) ; Pltustow Miirshes ; Cambridgeshire ; Dover ; near Sandwich ; Holm 

 Bush, Brighton ( Power) ; Portsmouth district (Moncrenff) ; (ilunvilles Wootton, <>u 

 horse miut (Dale) ; Newton, Devon, scarce ; Brauntou Burrows, N. Devon (Blandford). 



C. fastuosa, Schall. (uittata, F., nee Vill.). Oblong-ovate, ferru- 

 ginous ; antennae dark towards apex, reddish at base ; thorax rather 

 long, distinctly punctured at sides, almost smooth and somewhat 

 shining in middle, with black spots at posterior angles and on front 

 margin and disc, posterior angles marked, base sinuate ; elytra with the 

 suture broadly, and irregular patches on each, black, with fine rows of 

 punctures, interstices broad and even; legs black. L. 4-5 mm. 



On Senecio jacobeea, very local and rare 5 Godstone, Surrey (Stephens) ; Green - 

 liithe, Kent ; Chatham, where a few specimens have been taken from moss in a wood 

 in winter by Mr. Champion and Mr. .1. J.Walker; Berks, Windsor, Rye, ami 

 New Forest (Stephens) ; Peppering Powder-mill Ponds, Hastings (Butler) ; Glan- 

 villes Wootton, one specimen, October 1st, 1877, on mint (Dale); Manchester 

 (Chappell). 



C. nebulosa, L. Oval, moderately convex, upper surface rust-brown 

 or greenish with small'black spots dotted over the elytra, under-side 

 black with the margins of abdomen testaceous ; front of head palp, 

 antennae dark, reddish at base ; thorax semicircular, with the posterior 

 angles rounded, shallowly and moderately distinctly punctured, sinuate 

 at base ; elytra with regular rows of coarse punctures, interstices strongly 

 raised ; legs, except femora, testaceous. L. 5-6 mm. 



Male more ovate, with the yellowish border of the abdomen narrower, 

 and the femora almost entirely .black. 



Female with the yellowish border of the abdomen broader, and the 

 femora black with a yellowish central line. 



On clover, beetroot, and other low plants ; rare ; Horsell (Power) ; Dnrenth Wood, 

 Monks Wood, and Bottisham near Cambridge (Stephens; ; Whittlesen Mere (Blatch) ; 

 Nocton, near Lincoln (Waterhouse). 



C. vibex, F. (liriqrfiora, Kirby ; florsalis, Herbst.). liroad oval, 

 upper surface green, elytra with the suture broadly pitchy brown or 

 blackish, under-side black ; antennae dark, with base pale ; thorax 

 almost semicircular, with the posterior angles marked, subrugosely 

 punctured, less closely on disc than at sides ; elytra with regular rows 

 of rather coarse punctures, interstices narrow, the second being some- 

 what strongly raised ; legs reddish-testaceous, femora almost entirely 

 black. L. 5-6 mm. 



By sweeping thistl-s, Centavrea, Serratula arvcnsis, &c. ; local, but not un- 

 common where it occurs; Caterham, Mickleham, Aslitead, Darenth Wood, Ton- 

 bridge, Faversham, Whitstable, Chatham, Hoi si 11, Birch Wood, 



