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Blue, sometimes greenish, clothed with long, fuscescent, pubescence : head thickly 

 punctured : thorax slightly convex, and closely and rather coarseli/ punc- 

 tured : elytra deeply punctate-striate, the interstices each with a row o/'minute 

 impressed points : body beneath blue, punctulated : femora the same : tibiae 

 rather fuscous, very pilose: tarsi dusky: antennae dusky-black: rostrum as 

 long as the head and thorax, a little bent and pitchy-black. 



Not uncommon in whitethorn hedges, throughout the metropolitan 

 district. " Wood Ditton." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Epping." — Mr. 

 Douhleday. " On hedge banks (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, 

 Esq. 



Sp. 8. interpunctatus. Cceruleus, nitidus, parcius puhescens, thorace scabro 

 punctatissimo lined dorsali suhloevi, elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis sub- 

 tilissime seriato punctatis. (Long. corp. l\ — 1| lin.) 



Rh. interpunctatus. Wilkin? MSS. Steph. Catal. 190. No. 1973. 



Blue, or greenish, shining, slightly pubescent : head thickly punctured : thorax 

 somewhat granulated, and very closely, but not coarsely punctured, with an 

 obscure smooth abbreviated dorsal line : elytra rather deeply T^unctsite-striate, 

 the interstices with a series of minute impressions : legs and antennae dusky- 

 black. 



Not uncommon in the vicinity of London. 



Sp. 9. minutus. Ovatus virescenti-coeruleus, subnitidus, pubescens, thorace punc- 

 tatissimo, elytris prqfunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis impunctatis, (Long. 

 Corp. 1— 14 lin) 



Cu. minutus. Herbst.—Kh.. nanus. Steph. Catal. 190. No. 1974: exclusis 

 syn. : Gyll. et Payk. 



Ovate, greenish-blue, slightly shining, and a little pubescent : head very thickly 

 punctulate : thorax also very thickly and finely punctured, and somewhat ob- 

 scure : elytra more shining, deeply punctate-^^rta^e, with the interstices 

 narrow and totally impunctate : legs bluish : tibiae slightly pubescent : an- 

 tennae and rostrum dusky-black. 



This insect is decidedly not the Cu. seneovirens of Marsham, hereafter described. 



Very abundant in hedges in the metropolitan district : also found 

 near Bristol. 



Sp. 10. atrocaeruleus. Ater, ovatus, subnitidus, tenue pubescens, thorace punctu- 

 lato, elytris atrocoeruleis profundi punctato-striatis, interstitiis impunctatis. 

 (Long. Corp. 1^ lin.) 



Rh. atrocaeruleus. Steph. Catal. 190. No. 1975. 



Black, ovate, slightly shining : clothed with a short pubescence : thorax punctu- 

 late: elytra of a deep blue-black, slightly Tpunctate-st7-iate, with the interstices 

 impunctate: legs bluish: antennae and rostrum black. 



