Marsham in his Entomologia Britannica enumerates twelve 

 species only of the true Cri/ptoeephali ; and now there are the 

 following : — 



10. — punctlger Fayk. 



C. marginellus, dorsalls and frontalis, it is generally thought 

 are mere varieties of C. pnsillus, varying in diflferent degrees from 

 testaceous to black ; and Dr. Leach has lately sent from Devon- 

 shire to the British Museum^ either another curious variety or a 

 distinct species, black with a testaceous transverse band near the 

 base of the elytra. 



Mr. Dale having swept his insect off Heath growing upon a 

 bank, Mrica cinerea (Fine-leaved Heath) is figured in the plate. 

 It is said also by Pabricius to inhabit a very old garden flower 

 Chrysanthemum coronarium. 



