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those on the disk : elytra pallid, with a longitudinal stripe at the suture 

 with three diverging obsolete branches, and several irregular spots ; one 

 at the shoulders larger than the rest and as it were broken, or obtus- 

 angular, all of a dark green : the elytra are grossly punctured with scat- 

 tered punctures, but next the suture the punctures are disposed in two 

 rows, the sutural one [211] extending from the base to near the apex, 

 where it becomes confluent with the second, both diverging towards the 

 base and surrounding the upper branch of the sutural stripe ; there is a 

 fourth series of punctures at a little distance from the lateral margin, and 

 the interstice between them is irnpuncturcd : ej)ip]eura dark-green. 



N.B. The two lower L^anches of the above stripe are surrounded by 

 a common series of punctures. 



Varietv B. Smaller, green-bronzed, green spots oi" the elytra inore 

 numerous, epipleura pallid. 



C. Sutural stripe vrith only nne branch, the two lower ones 

 forming separate spots ; epipleura pallid. 



This varying species may be known n-yA\ the succeding ones by the 

 green colour of its bod\ : all the varieties are distinguished by the obtus- 

 angular spot at ths shouldirs of the elytrA: the varying number of green 

 spots on these organs is produced by the separation of som.e of the 

 irregular ones into distinct ones, and the lower branches of the sutural 

 stripe doing the same. Variety C comes nearest to that figured by De- 

 Geer and Olivier. [Quite common in Canada]. 



281. Chrysomela confinis Kirby. — Length of body 4}^ lines. A 

 single specimen taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



Nearly related to the preceding species. Body oblong, obscurely 

 bronzed-green, grossly punctured. Palpi, antennae, legs, and rhinarium 

 ferruginous : punctures of the prcthcrax scattered in masses, with the 

 interstices very minutely punctured : srutellum bronzed : elytra reddish 

 with a discoidal flexuose irregular pale stripe dilated at the base and 

 towards the apex ; there are also two tlexuose dark-green discoidal stripes 

 in the disk, the exterior one nearly reaching the base and the interior 

 approaching nearer to the apex, between these towards the base is a single 

 oblong green spot, and outride them are many irregular ones of the same 

 colour ; all these spots and stripes are convex and mostly circumscribed 

 by punctures ; there is a double series of punctures diverging towards the 

 base ; and an oblique abbreviated one between these and the scutellum. 



