226 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Very abundant on several of the coasts of Britain, but rare in- 

 land. I possess a fine specimen with green elytra, from the banks of 

 the Thames, near Richmond, and I found an elytron in fine con- 

 dition in a sand-pit on Ockham-heath, near Ripley, in July, 1827. 

 " Sandylinks, near South Shields, abundant."' — G. Walks, Esq. 

 " Frequent in June and July on the sand-hills (near Swansea)." 

 — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Aldborough, copiously." — Rev. F. W. 

 Hope. 



f Sp. 2. Donovani. Nigro-wneus, elytris punctato-striatis testaceis, suturd limbo 

 apice fascidque undulatd nigris. (Long. corp. 5 lin.) 



Sc. Donovani. Marsham. — An. Donovani. Steph. Catal. 117. No. 1196. 



Black-brass, slightly shining; head and thorax immaculate: elytra punctate- 

 striate, testaceous, with a central transverse slightly undulated fascia, the 

 suture, apex, and lateral margins bronzed-black : body beneath piceous, with 

 a cinereous pubescence : legs piceous : antennae ferruginous. 



This insect evidently belongs to the present genus, as pointed out to me by Mr. 

 Westwood, and differs chiefly from Ano. Frischii by having the elytra rather 

 deeply punctate-striated, with their margins and a transverse fascia black. 



A pair of this species in Mr. Donovan's collection, and two in 

 that of the British Museum, are the only examples that have 

 hitherto come beneath my observation : the former were captured 

 " on the sand-hills near Newton Nottage." — Donovan's Tour 

 through Wales : — of the locality of the others I am ignorant. 



Sp. 3. Vitis. Sericeo-viridis, thoracis laterihus JIavo-testaceis, antennis testaceis. 

 (Long. corp. 6—7 lin.) 



Sc. Vitis. Fillers.— Martyn, pi. 1. f. 8.— An. Vitis. Steph. Catal. 117. No. 

 1194. 



Short, ovate ; entirely of a rich changeable satiny green, with the lateral mar- 

 gins of the thorax more or less broadly testaceous-yellow, and sometimes the 

 outer margins of the elytra, the posterior coxae and anterior edge of the 

 hinder femora the same ; as are the antennae with a concolorous club ; head 

 and thorax punctate : elytra broad, rather coarsely punctate, and irregularly 

 striated. 



Known from the green variety of An. Frischii by its brevity and width, and by 

 the concolorous club of the antennae. 



I have three specimens of this species, which are said to have 

 been captured in the neighbourhood of London *. 



* From the rarity of this insect in Britain, and from the circumstance of its 

 name implying that the vine alone forms its pabulum, its indigenous origin 



