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Ovate, with the head, which has a faint longitudinal carina between the eyes 

 and two slightly visible tubercles, thorax, tibice, and tarsi entirely rufous : 

 elytra dark blue, and deeply punctate-striate, the strise composed of larger 

 and fewer punctures than in the preceding species, and disposed irregularly 

 towards the apex : mouth, femora, breast, and abdomen black. 



Taken in Suifolk, and near « Windsor."— Mr. G. Water- 

 house. 



Sp. 35. nitidula. Oblongo-ovata, subtiliter punctulata, thorace capitegue viridi- 

 aureis, elytris cceruleis, striis suhtilioribus intricatis, antennarum basi pedi~ 

 busque anterioribus rujis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 



Ch. nitidula.' Linne. — Don. \m. pi. 273. — Ha. nitidula. Steph. Catal. 219. 

 JVo. 2235. 



Oblong-owa,te, very delicately punctate: head golden-green, with the vertex 

 extremely glossy: thorax also golden-green, very shining and thickly but 

 finely punctured : elytra blue, shining, delicately -pnnctsiie-striate, the stria: 

 somewhat irregular, especially towards the suture: Ze^jpale testaceous-ye^ow, 

 with the hinder femora broad, black, shining, and with a brassy-hue : antennce 

 pale testaceous, with the apex Mack. 



Rather scarce; found on willows near London, and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bristol. 



Sp. 36. Helxines. Ovata, thorace profundi punctato, aeneo, aut aureo-viridi, 

 elytris ceneis aut cyaneis regulariter profundi punctato-striatis, antennis pedi- 

 bnsqueJlavo-testaceis,femoribusposticissoEpeinfuscatis. (Long. corp. Ig — 2 

 lin.) 



Ch. Helxines. Linne.— Ha.. Helxines. Steph. Catal. 218. No. 2236. 



Ovate, deeply punctured : head brassy-green, rather finely punctured, with the 

 forehead opaque : thorax deeply pmnctured, golden-green, or brassy, or brassy- 

 copper, shining : elytra moderately convex, regularly and deeply punctate- 

 striate, with the interstices smooth ; the colours bright-g-reew, or golden- 

 green, or brassy, or deep copper, sometimes concolorous with the thorax, at 

 others different therefrom : legs testaceous-yellow, with the posterior femora 

 sometimes clouded ; rarely black or fuscous, with a brassy tinge : antennae also 

 testaceous- 

 Much more abundant than the immediately preceding and the 

 following species, in the vicinity of the metropolis, where it occurs 

 on poplars and willows during the summer. " Willows (about 

 Swansea) very common." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Bottisham." — 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. 



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