I'HYTOPHAOA. 



Hertford; Dilchinghain. Suffolk ; \Vick.nFcii; Shipler, ntnr lloi>h:iin ; Hatting* ; 

 Holm Hush, Brighton ; New Forest ; (ilativilles Wootton ; Braunton Burrows, N. 

 Devon ; Bristol ; Filey, Vorks (one specimen taken by myself on a thistle on the cliffs) ; 

 Liverpool district. 



C. sang-uinolenta, F. Short oval, subrotundate, very convex, 

 shining, upper surface of a more or less bright green colour, with the 

 suture of the elytra, or at least its base, sanguineous, under-side black 

 with the border of the abdomen pale; antennae reddish, darker towards 

 apex; thorax almost semicircular with the disc finely and regularly 

 punctured, the punctures being stronger at sides, posterior angles well 

 marked; elytra with regular rows of rather deep punctures, compressed 

 at sides, with some of the interstices slightly raised; legs pale. L. 

 3]-4 ram. 



A variety of this species occurs in which the elytra are unicolorous; 

 this cannot well be confused with ;iny other species except C. hemi- 

 spheerica, from which the regular rows of punctures on the elytra, and tin- 

 colour of the abdomen will at once separate it. 



On thi-tles and Achillea millefolium, also apparently on other low plants ; not 

 common; Hammersmith, Konst Hill, Highgate, Horsell, Cowley, Southend, Kppinjr, 

 Chatham; Wit-ken Fen; Cambridge; Deal; Dover; Folkestone; Portsmouth iii~- 

 tric-t ; Glanvilles Wootton; Swansea; Sal ford Priors; Bewdley Forest; Kepton ; 

 Aigbarth day banks and Wallasey, near Liverpool ; Northumberland and Durham 

 district, very rare ; the variety has occurred at Bushey, Deal, &c. 



C. chloris, Suffr. This species was considered exceedingly doubtful 

 as British, until the Rev. H. S. Gorham confirmed it on the authority of 

 specimens taken by himself ; according to his note in the Entomologists' 

 Monthly Magazine, vol. xxii. p. 14, it cannot be compared with any species 

 in the British list, except (7. sanguinolrnta ; from this species it may be 

 easily separated by its longer and more parallel build, coarser sculpture, 

 and different colour ; in fact, it appears only to resemble it in having a 

 reddish base to the elytra, which part, however, is not sanguineous, ]>m 

 reddish-brown ; its general colour in life is green, and on the reddish- 

 brown part several golden specks may be seen in life ; the thorax and 

 elytra are rather coarsely punctured, and on the latter the punctures are 

 in irregular and somewhat interrupted series, becoming confused to \var<U 

 the apex ; the legs are yellow ; the body, head, coxae, and thickened putt 

 of the antennae are black. L. 3J-4 nun. 



Very rare ; two specimens taken at Shipley near Horshatn out of flood-rubbish 

 from the river Adur, and one at Twyford near Winchester by the Rev. H. S. Gor- 

 ham ; Scotland, very rare, Solway district, Dumfriesshire (Sharp and Lennon). 



C. vittata, Vill., nee F. (oblonqa, 111.). Elongate oral, somewhnt 

 elliptical, upper-side greenish, elytra with a common gre.-ni>h-golden 

 metallic strijH' at suture, the centre of which is often reddi>h, under-side 

 black, margins of abdomen broadly greenish ; antenna? fuscous with base 

 lii^lit ; thorax semicircular, vi-ry finely punctureil. with posterior :i 

 well marked ; elytra rather long, somewhat narrowed towards ajH-\, 



