roo 



In the female the abdomen, as in Ph. Po/ygoni, is oft* n fo distended 

 with eggs as to make the elytra appear abbreviated. 



Variety B. With the whole of the u|>per surface green, without any 

 golden lustre. 



[This and the two following species are included in the genus Casirc- 

 physa Che v.] 



[216.] 288. Ph<i-:don polygoni Linn. — Length of body 2 lines. 

 'I aken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch and Capt. Hall. [Very com- 

 mon in Canada.] 



Body oblong-ovate, punctured, glossy, underneath black. Hend deep 

 blue, with an abbreviated channel in the vertex between the eyes ; antennae 

 piceous, with the first five joints rufous : prothorax convex, rufous : elytra 

 deep blue, thickly punctured : legs rufous with piceous tarsi ; anus 

 rufous. 



289. Phyllodecta V'itellix.e Zm7/.-- Length of body 2^3 hne.s. 

 [217.] Body oblong, a little inclining to ovate, glos.sy ; underneath 



black-bronzed, scarcely punctured ; above bronzed with a copper tint, 

 minutely punctured. First and second joints of the antennae ^ufous : 

 scutellum impunctured : elytra punctured in rows, with the interstices 

 indistincdy punctured : tarsi piceous with the first joint rufous. 



[Taken on Lake Superior by Agassiz's Expedition ; in Ontario, also.] 



Family Halticid.e. 



290. Haltica (oRCHESTRis) viciNA Kifby. -Length of body ^^■S 

 lines. A single specimen taken. 



Body underneath pale rufous with the disk of the postpectus black. 

 Head punctured in the vertex, dirty-white, v/ith a pair of contiguous black 

 dots between the eyes and a subtriangular one on the nose ; antennae 

 black with the underside of the scape and the two next joints dusky- 

 rufous : prothorax very minutely and lightly punctured, white with two 

 irregular black spots placed obliquely on each s.de, and a black longitu- 

 dinal streak between them : scutellum black : elytra very minutely and 

 thickly punctured, with a sutural stripe common to both, a discoidal one 

 rather nearer the lateral margin, and another }ust above it all black : the 

 Intermediate stripe falls .short of the apex of the elytra : the upper side of 

 the tibiae is dusky, and the tarsi are black. 



[218.] 291, Haltica (oRCHE.srRi.s) punxticollis A7/-(^j. — Plate vii, 

 %• 9- — Length of body 2^4^-3 lines. A single specimen taken in IjiX. 

 65°. Taken also by Prof Peck in New England ? 



