302 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Ovate, convex, black, shining: head and thorax rufous, the latter very glossy, 

 with a faint oblique/oi;ea on each side at the base: elytra greenish-A/we, but 

 variable in hue, rather irregularly -^xmciaXe-striate : legs and antenna; black, 

 the base of the latter rufous. 



The antennae hi this and the following species are not very dissimilar in struc- 

 ture to those of Ha. fuscicornis. 



Very common in hedges from April to July near London. " Oc- 

 casionall}^ near Swansea/'— Z. W. JDillzoTjn, Esq. " Weston."— 

 Rev. A. H. Matthews. 



Sp. 25. tripudians. JKneo-picea, capile, thorace, tibiis antennarumque basi riifis, 



elytris viridi-cceruleis, jmnctato-striatis. (Long. corp. Ig— 15 Hn.) 

 Ha. tripudians. Kirby MSS.-Steph. Catal. 217. No. 2215. 



Ovate, convex, pitchy-brass, shining : head, thorax, tibia, and base of the an- 

 tenncB, rufous : elytra punctate-striate, of a greenish-b\ue : femora pitchy. 



Taken near London ; in Suffolk and about Bristol. 



* * * Elytra smooth impunctate. 

 •j-Sp. 26. Kirbii. Flava, lavigaia, elytris femoribusque posticis cyaneo-viridibus. 



(Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 

 Ha. Kirbii. Steph. Catal. 218. No. 2227. 



Larger than Ha. oleracea: very smooth and totally without punctures; yellow, 

 with the elytra and hinder femora blue-green. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this large and remarkably beautiful species 

 after my friend the Rev. W. Kirby, his MS. name H. cyanoptera being pre- 

 occupied, for a dissimilar insect, by Illiger. Whether the insect belongs to 

 this genus, I have not the present means of determining : it is now upwards 

 of ten years since I saw it, but I suspect that it is a true Haltica. 



Taken near Livermere, in Suffolk, I believe during a flood. 



b. Thorax posteriorly with a transverse impression. 



* Elytra punctate-striate. 



Sp. 27. ferruginea. Oblonga, ferruginea, glabra, immaculata, elytris irregu- 



lariter punctato-striatis, oculis nigris. (Long. corp. 1^ — %-g lin.) 

 Ha. ferruginea. Schrank. — Steph. Catal. 218. No. 2228. 



Oblong, ferruginous, glabrous, immaculate: eyes black : thorax with a transverse 

 posterior impression abbreviated at each extremity : elytra striate, the strice 

 composed of minute irregularly disposed punctures : legs and antennae rather 

 pale. 



The second joint of the antennae is considerably abbreviated in this, and the 

 subsequent species of the genus. 



