CHllYSOMELID^. — CHRYSOMELA. 343 



sometimes with a greenish tinge : legs the same : antennae black, with the 



base rufo-piceous. 



Not uncommon in grassy places, on the banks of the Thames, 

 about Battersea, Fulham, &c. in June. " Near YAj^—Rev. L. 

 Jenyns. "Arthur's-seat, wot common:'— Rev. W. Little. "Coome- 

 wood and Armathwaite."— T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Bath."— C. C. 

 BaUngton, Esq. " Marsden, Meldon-park, &c."— G. Wailes, Esq. 

 " Covehithe, Suffolk."— TF. C. Hezvitson, Esq. 



Sp. 14. Hobsoni. Ovata, aty^a supra piceo-nigra subnitida, thorace Iwve, late- 

 ribus incrassatis, ehjtris jmnctis impressis striatis. (Long. corp. 4 hn.) 



Ch. Hobsoni. Hope MSS.-Steph. Catal. 413. iVo. 2285.* 



Ovate, black, above pitchy, or brown-black, elytra glossy : thorax smooth, with 

 the lateral margins incrassated : elytra simply ^\xnctaXe-striate. 

 Taken near Manchester, in plenty : its peculiar colour appears 



to distinguish it from the preceding insect. 



t Sp. 15. SparshalH. Curtis MSS.—Steph. Catal. 224. No. 2299. 



I have never seen this insect, which I introduced into my Catalogue from a 

 notice in an address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Zoological Club 

 of the Linnean Society, by J. G. Children, Esq., where it is said to be a beau- 

 tiful and undescribed insect. It is, I believe, in Mr. Sparshall's Collection.— 

 Locality unknown to me. 



Sp. 16. Banksii. Ovata, supra anea, subtus testacea, elytris punctis excavatis 



sparsis. (Long. corp. 4 — 5| lin.) 

 Ch. Banksii. Fabricius.—Don. iv.pl. 138./. i.—Steph. Catal. 223. No. 2287. 



Ovate, above brassy, very glossy: mouth testaceous: thorax with the disc very 

 finely and obscurely punctulated, the lateral margins greatly incrassated, the 

 inner edo-e of the fold deeply punctate : elytra sprinkled ivith deep excavated 

 punctures, the under margin testaceous : body beneath, legs and antennae also 

 testaceous. 



Sometimes pitchy above, with a very obscure trace of aeneous : at others nearly 

 black. 

 Extremely abundant in grassy Ledges in the vicinity of Darenth- 



M'ood : also near Bristol, and in Devonshire. " Teignmouth." — 



Rev. A. H. Matthews. " Dawlish."— C. C. BaUngton, Esq. 



B. Elytra punctate, a. Thorax with its lateral margin thickened. 

 1. Body oblong. 

 Sp. 17. hmbata. Subohlongo-ovaia, nigra, nitida, subtiliter punctata, elytrorum 

 limbo toto late ferrugineo. (Long. corp. 34—4 lin.) 



