402 PHYTOPHAGA. [Camilla. 



There is considerable confusion with regard to the nomenclature of 

 this genus ; the insects commonly regarded by British collectors as 

 C. vibez, G. viridis, and (7. equestris are respectively named in the 

 European catalogue of Heyden, Reitter, and Weise as 0. liriopJiora, 

 Kirby, C. vibex, L., and 0. viridis, L. ; I have preferred to retain our 

 commonly received names, as it does not appear quite certain which are 

 really the Linnean species in every case, and (7. viridis and (7. equestris 

 are apparently confused by some authors ; at all events it would be far 

 better to substitute entirely new names than to cause inextricable con- 

 fusion by a general intermixture. 



Cardiophorua equiseti, Herbst., Er., nee Steph. Black, densely 

 and finely punctured all over, clothed with close ashy-grey pubescence, 

 without fulvous tinge ; narrower and more parallel than C. asellus. 

 Thorax convex, slightly longer than broad, with sides moderately 

 rounded, nearly straight for anterior third, more contracted at base than 

 in (7. asellus, with central furrow distinct behind and two short lateral 

 sulci at base. Elytra much wider than thorax at base and two and a 

 half times as long, with sides nearly parallel for anterior half, slightly 

 contracted behind shoulders and dilated at middle and thence gradually 

 narrowed to apex, flattened along suture, with punctured striae, interstices 

 convex at base ; antennae and palpi black ; legs black with knees slightly 

 pitchy and tarsi reddish ; all the tarsal claws dentate ; apex of last two 

 abdominal segments pitchy. L. 7 mm. 



A single specimen was taken by Miss E. A. L. Daltry in long grass 

 on the cliff between Tenby and Manorbier, South Wales, on May 29th, 

 1889, and was sent by her to Mr. W. Blandford, for whom it was 

 determined by Mr. Champion ; I am indebted to Mr. Blandford for -the 

 above description. It is not certain whether we do not possess C. cinereus, 

 Herbst., as British ; like C. equiseti, it has the tarsal claws dentate, a 

 point that will separate both the last-mentioned species from the closely 

 allied C. asellvs ; it is, however, broader and less cylindrical than 

 C. equiseti, and the pubescence is somewhat different ; according to 

 Kiesenwetter the colour of the legs is much as in the above description 

 of C. equiseti, whereas (7. equiseti has the legs red ; there are specimens 

 in the collections of Stephens and Leech, without localities, that may, 

 perhaps, turn out to be representatives of both these very nearly allied 

 species. 



