162 CHRYSOMELID^. 



L. cyanella^'L., or L. Z;>/;ejns, Yoet.). and the much less strong strial 

 punctuation of the elytra ; the thorax, moreover, is rather difierently 

 punctured, and, under a high power, shows more traces of minute 

 punctures between the scattered larger one?. L. 4-4 1 mm. 



Rye (Donisthorpe) ; Slapton Ley, Devon (Joy) ; Hastings (Bennett) 

 — all single specimens. There is also an old specimen in the 

 Stephensian Collection. The species is widely distributed in Northern 

 and Central Europe and occurs in the Caucasus ; it Avill probably be 

 found in greater numbers. These two species may be distinguished as 

 follows : 



I. Thorax black ; elytra blue, elongate, 



with the punctures of the strias rela- 

 tively large and deep . . . L. septenteiokis, Weise. 



II. Thorax and elytra blue, less elongate, 



with the punctvires of the stride less 



large and deep . . . . . L. erichsoni, Sitffr. 

 L. septenfrionis has hitherto been only found in Ireland, and 

 L. erichsoni only in the south of England. 



CAMPTOSOMATA. 

 LABIDOSTOMIS, Redtenbacher. 

 L. tridentata, L. (8yst. N. x. 374). Mr. Donisthorpe (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xxxix. (2 Ser. xiv.) 1903, 205; Ent. Rec. 1908, 108, pit. ix.) 

 gives an account of the oviposition of this insect and of the young 

 larva, which closely resembles that of Clythra. The female lays white 

 bunches of from five to twenty-five eggs on birch leaves, and each egg- 

 is covered with a case which the female constructs from her excrement, 

 rolling it round the egg with her hind tarsi. When hatched the little 

 larva remains inside the egg case, Avhich it breaks ofi' from the rest, and 

 looks a very curious object walking rapidly along with the case sticking 

 up upon its hind body. 



CLYTHRA, Laicharting. 

 C. quadripunctata, L. (Syst. N. x. 374). Mr. Donisthorpe 

 has given a long and interesting account of the life-history of this 

 insect, Avith coloured figures, in the Transactions of the Entomological 

 Society of London (1902, Part ii., Plate ii.). 



GYNANDROPHTHALMA, Lacordaiie. 

 Gynandrophthalma, Lac. (Mon. Phyt. vol. ii. p. 256 (1848)). 

 Body subcylindrical, short, more or less convex, with the upper side 

 rarely pubescent ; head moderate with the eyes round and somewhat 

 prominent; antennae with the joints variable ; thorax transverse, moie 

 or less gradually narrowed and rounded in front ; scutellum variable, 

 but usually truncate at apex ; elyti\a feebly sinuate at the sides, with 

 the epipleural lobes projecting beyond the margins ; anterior coxae not 



