CHRYSOMELIDjE.— TIMARCHA. 347 



strife rich-blue, and one or two other narrow streaks of the same colour: 

 legs and antennas violaceous, the apex of the latter fuscescent. 

 Var. /3. With the head a,nd thorax pitchy-brown with a brassy tint : elytra 

 pale pitchy-brown, with three darker longitudinal streaks 3 lateral margin 

 beneath blue : body beneath violet black. 



Apparently not very rare in the Welsh mountains, having been 

 taken on Snowdon, and other places, by the Revs. J. S. Hey, and 

 F. W.^Hope; and by Messrs. Fox, Darwin, and others, in com- 

 parative plenty within these few years. 



2. Body ovate. 



Sp. 26. varians. Ovata, convexa, colore vario, antennis basi concoloribus, thoracis 

 margine subincrassato, elytris creberrime, vage punctatis, (Long. corp. 2h — 

 3| hn.) 



Ch. varians. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 224-. No. 2296.— Ch. Marshami. — Bon. 

 viii. pi. 286./; 1. 



Ovate, convex, beneath violet-h\ue or greenish, shining, sometimes aeneous, 

 vpper surface extremely variable in tint, sometimes of a splendid copper, at 

 others blue, blue-green, violet or black, and occasionally of a brassy-brown : 

 head obsoletely punctured, with the mouth pitchy-black : thorax with the 

 lateral margins obsoletely thickened, the disc finely but obsoletely punctured : 

 elytra very shining, thickly and irregularly punctured : antennce at the base 

 concolorous with the upper surface, the apex black : legs violaceous. 



Rather scarce near London, but I have occasionally met with the 

 insect in plenty in grassy places at Coombe-wood, in June, and also 

 at Darenth : it is not uncommon near Bristol. " Raehills, common." 

 — Rev. W. Little. " l^iewcastle, &cc."—G. Wailes, Esq. ''Neath 

 valley, and on borders of the old Crwmlyn Canal, not uncommon." 

 —L. W. Dillwijn, Esq. " Wood Ditton, Cambs."— 5. J). Walsh, 

 Esq. " Monk's-wood." — C. C. BaUngtoti, Esq. " Weston." — 

 Rev. A. H. Matthezvs. " Epping."— il/r. DouhUday. 



Sp. 27. haemoptera. Gibbosa, nigro-ccerulea tota, antennis basi rufo-piceis, 

 thorace obsolete punctulato, elytris substriato-punctatis. (Long. corp. 3 — 4 

 lin.) 



Ch. hsemoptera. LinnL — Martyn, Col. pi. 15. /. 22. — Steph. Catal. 224. No. 

 2297. 



Gibbous, entirely of a blue-black, somewhat brassy above : head obsoletely punc- 

 tured, with the mouth pitchy-black : thorax also obsoletely punctured, with 

 the lateral punctures larger and more distinct : elytra very convex, with 

 large moderately close punctures, somewhat disposed in irregular strice towards 



