30 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Taken at Windsor and Dover : at the last place by myself, out 

 of tlie common broom. In the British Museum is a specimen 

 from the former place of a most splendid opaline purple-cyaneous 

 tinge. 



Sp. 3. chlorocephalus. Cyaneo-viridis, antermarum articulls trihus 

 baseos, thorace pectore pedibusque rufis, tarsis nigris. (Long. c. 

 2i-3i,lin.) 



Ca. chlorocephalus. Ent. Hefte. — La. chlorocephalus. Stepli. Catal. 

 No. 3L 



Head as in La. cyanocephalus^ but more strongly punctate : thorax rather longer, 

 more attenuated behind, and the posterior angles more produced and acumi- 

 nated than in the first species ; it is also rather more convex ; its colour is 

 similar: the scuteUum is rufo-ferruginous : the elytra are generally of a 

 beautiful emerald-green, sometimes bluish; they are regularly punctato- 

 striate, the spaces between flat, with minute somewhat regularly disposed 

 impressed dots : near the third stria from the suture are two larger impres- 

 sions : the head is piceous beneath : the breast rusty-red : the abdomen blue- 

 green : the legs entirely testaceous-red^ with the tarsi brownish, or dusky : the 

 two basal, and the under part of the third, joints of the antennae are ferrugi- 

 nous ; the rest black. — It varies considerably in size and colour. 



Common upon broom in the neighbourhood of London : the 

 specimens which I have obtained from Epping Forest are generally 

 but half the size of those taken at Darenth, and their wing-cases 

 are usually deeply tinted with blue. Not uncommon in many other 

 parts of Britain. 



Sp. 4. rufipes. Wgro-cyaneus, thorace pectore pedibusque rufis ; 



elytris cyaneis striatis, striis inter stitilsque obsolete punctatis. De 



Jean. (Long, c 2^ Hn.) 

 Le. rufipes. De Jean. — La rufipes. Steph. Catal. No. 32. 



Closely allied to the preceding insect : the head is deep blue-black : the thorax 

 red, very sUghtly wrinkled transversely: the elytra blue-green, slightly striated, 

 with impressed dots between the striae, and two more deeply impressed be- 

 tween the second and third striae from the suture ; the tips of the elytra are 

 slightly rounded : the three basal joints of the antennae are red, the remainder 

 dusky : the abdomen is bluish-black, and the breast and legs are rufous ; the 

 tarsi somewhat more obscure. 



I have seen but my own single specimen of this insect, which 

 was taken in Hampshire : — it may possibly be merely a variety or 

 an immature specimen of the preceding : its chief differences appear 

 to consist in the three basal joints of the antenna? being entirely 



