400 PIIVTOPH M;\. [Caxsida. 



with regular rows of rather strong punctures; legs greenish-testaceous. 

 L. 4-5| mm. 



On Salicornia and other galt-mnrsh plants, sometimes nlso found by pulling up the 

 roots; almost always found on or near the coast ; locally common ; Chatham, Sheer- 

 ness, Gravesend, Southend, Rochester ; Portsmouth district ; Bournemouth ; Lyming- 

 ton Salterns ; xmouth and Barnstaple; Bristol; S\v!mst-a ; Stourport; it has also 

 been recorded from Coombe Wood, Fakenham, Ripley (Surrey), and Henley, but 

 these records may be in error, as the species seerns almost entirely confined to salt 

 marshes. 



C. nobilis, L. Allied to the preceding, but easily distinguished by 

 its broader-ovate form, and by having the posterior angles of the thorax 

 rounded ; upper surface pale greenish-yellow, under-side black with the 

 margins of the abdomen light ; antennae dark with base reddish ; thorax 

 semicircular, punctured at sides, and nearly smooth on disc, which is 

 raised ; elytra with rows of deep punctures, and with a common metallic 

 sutural band which is variable in colour, being sometimes silvery bluish, 

 sometimes coppery, and sometimes purple or reddish ; the metallic colour 

 seems generally to be confined to the second interstice, the suture itself 

 being greenish or fuscous ; occasionally stria) of the metallic colour are 

 visible on the disc of the elytra ; legs yellowish, base of femora, and 

 rarely the entire femora, black. L. 4-5 mm. 



Chalky and sandy places ;. on low plants ; occasionally found in moss ; local, but not 

 uncommon in some districts ; Hounslow, Caterham, Cliobham, Shirley, Ouklium 

 (Surrey), Walton, Forest Hill, Cowley, Gravesend, Southend, Faversham, Chatham, 

 Sheerness ; Harwich; Margate; St. Peter's; Deal; Folkestone; Dover; Sandwich; 

 Hastings; Southsea; New Forest; Southampton; Portland; Dawlish, Devon (ou 

 Salicornia); Swansea; Cambridge; Wicken Fen; Whittlesea Mere; Yorkshire; 

 Ireland, Carlingford and Greenore-on-shore ou Honckenya peploides (Johnson). 



C. subferrugrinea, Schrank. ( ferruginea, F.). Oval, upper surface 

 ferruginous, sometimes with a feeble metallic reflection, under-side 

 black ; antennae pale, fuscous towards apex ; thorax distinctly punctured, 

 with posterior angles rounded ; elytra with irregular rows of punctures, 

 alternate interstices raised ; legs red, with the base of the femora infus- 

 cate; the abdomen appears to be occasionally more or less ferruginous. 

 L. 4-5 mm. 



On Achillea millefolium and other low plants ; very rare, and somewhat doubtfully 

 indigenous ; recorded by Stephens from Devonshire, and by Dillwyn from near 

 Swansea. 



C. flaveola, Thunb. (obsoleta, 111.). Ovate, upper surface of a dirty 

 yellowish or pale greenish yellow colour, under-side black, abdomen 

 usually with a yellowish border ; front pale, antennae tcstaceou?, fuscous 

 towards apex; thorax smooth or very finely punctured on disc, more 

 coarsely at sides, with a depression before scutellum, and with the 

 posterior angles rounded ; elytra with regular rows of strong punctures ; 

 legs testaceous. L. 3^-4^ mm. 



In rare cases the thorax has a fuscous spot behind, and the elytra are 

 slightly infuscate towards base. 



