282 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Ch. melanopa. Linne. — Mmtyn, C. pi. 17. f. 53. — Cr. melanopa. Steph. Catal. 

 210. JVo. 2128. 



Blue or green, shining: head dusky-blue: thorax rufous, very convex, and 

 finely punctulate, with a transverse impressed striga behind : elytra elongate, 

 regularly punctate-striate : femora and tihios rufous ; the extreme tip of the 

 latter and the tarsi black : antennse also black. 



Not very abundant witliin the metropolitan district, though far 

 from uncommon, frequenting marshy places. " Meldon-park." — 

 G. IVailes, Esq. " Cardew-mire." — T. C. Hey sham, Esq. " Lay- 

 ton." — Mr. Ingpen. " Raehills." — Rev. W. Little. " Weston." 

 — Rev. A. H. Matthews. 



Sp. 7. Asparagi. Nigro-ccerulea, thorace ruhro, punctis duobus nigris, elytris 

 Jlavis, cruce communi punctisque quatuor nigro-caruleis. (Long. corp. 2 — 3 



lin.) 

 Ch. Asparagi. Linne —Don. i. pi. 28.— Cr. Asparagi. Steph. Catal. 210. No. 



2129. 



Blue-black, or greenish : thorax slightly convex, rufous, shining, finely punc- 

 tured, zi/zVA two small blue-Z>/acA; spots and streaks, sometimes united, at others 

 almost obliterated : elytra yellow-testaceous, with the suture and a. short branch 

 on each side, forming a cross, hlue-black ; towards the base of each elytron u 

 rounded spot of similar hue and towards the apex a second 5 these are some- 

 times confluent with the cross : legs shining blue-black, occasionally with a 

 ferruginous ring round the base of the tibiae. 



Extremely abundant about June in certain places upon the 

 Asparagus, to which it appears to give an exclusive preference, 

 occurring not only within the metropolitan district, but in widely 

 distant parts, as in Devonshire, the New Forest, Brighton, &c. 

 " Woodside."~r. C. Hey sham, Esq. " Epping."— ^M'r. Double- 

 day. " Weston."— i^^z;. A. H. Matthews. 



Genus CCCXC. — Zeugophora, Kunze. 



AntenncB inserted before the eyes, thickening to the apex, the basal joint large, 

 reniform 3 second elongate, attenuated at the basej three following of nearly 

 equal length and form ; five next shorter, stouter, sub-ovate, with the apex 

 truncate, terminal large, elliptic. Palpi short, stout, the terminal joint conic, 

 obtuse : mandibles rounded at the apex : labium subquadrate : head exserted, 

 very broad in front: eyes globose, prominent : thorax convex, subquadrate, the 

 lateral margins produced into an obtuse tooth in the middle, the base narrower 

 than the elytra, which are rounded at the apex : legs rather short: femora cla- 

 vate, the posterior round: tibice simple. 



