234 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
very thickly punctured, punctures not arranged in rows: parapleura con- 
fluently punctured: disk of the postpectus bronzed and transversely 
striated with very slightly impressed striolæ. 
In the female the abdomen, as in PA. Polygoni, is often so distended 
with eggs as to make the elytra appear abbreviated. 
VARIETY B.. With the whole of the upper surface green, without any 
golden lustre. ! 
[This and the two following species are included in the genus Gastro- 
physa Chev. | 
[216.] 288 PHÆDON potycont Zénn.—Length of body. 2 lines. 
Taken in Nova Scotia by Dr. MacCulloch and Capt. Hall. [Very com- 
mon in Canada. | 
Body oblong-ovate, punctured, glossy, underneath black. Head deep 
blue, with an abbreviated channel in the vertex between the eyes; antennæ 
piceous, with the first five joints rufous: prothorax convex, rufous: elytra 
deep blue, thickly punctured: legs rufous with piceous tarsi; anus 
rufous. 
289. PHYLLODECTA VITELLIN® Ziwn.—Length of body 274 lines. 
[217.] Body oblong, a little inclining to ovate, glossy ; underneath 
black-bronzed, scarcely punctured; above bronzed with a copper tint, 
minutely punctured. First and second joints of the antennae rufous : 
scutellum impunctured: elytra punctured in rows, with the interstices 
indistinctly punctured : tarsi piceous with the first joint rufous. 
[Taken on Lake Superior by Agassiz’s Expedition ; in Ontario, also. ] 
Family HALtTicipz. 
290. HALTICA (ORCHESTRIS) vicina XK7rby.—Length of body 3% 
lines. A single specimen taken. 
Body underneath pale rufous with the disk of the postpectus black. 
Head punctured in the vertex, dirty-white, with 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 side, and a black longitu- 
dinal streak between them: seutellum black : elytra very minutely and 
thickly punctured, with a sutural stripe common to both, a discoidal one 
rather nearer the lateral margin, and another just 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. 
