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with a longitudinal black streak on each side, not touching the base, and 

 another towards the base ; elytra of the males pale griseous, with fuscous 

 nervures and a few obscure darker spots, the inner margin sometimes faintly 

 greenish or reddish ; in the females the same, but the spots more distinct, 

 and occasionally with a slender longitudinal whitish streak at the base of 

 the costa, and an oblique whitish spot near the apex ; abdomen dull testa- 

 ceous, yellowish-green beneath, the sides spotted with black ; legs dull 

 testaceous, spotted with fuscous. 



Variable : some examples have the carinse on the thorax whitish, giving the 

 appearance of a cross ; others— females — have the basal inner portion of the 

 elytra green, rosy or blood-red ; the body (and the back of the thorax) also 

 varies, of similar colours. 

 Extremely abundant throughout the metropolitan district, in 



grassy fields and meadows ; also on the borders of woods, hedges, or 



banks, &c., at the end of June and in July. 



Sp. 19. mollis. Thoracis carinis lateralibus sinuato-curvatis ; virescens vel gilva, 

 elytris maculisfuscis etapicali alba obliqua. (Long. corp. 8—10 lin.) 



Gry. mollis. Charpentier HorcB Ent. 164.— Lo. consobrina. Steph. Catal. 

 301. iVo. 3330. 



Thorax with its lateral carinas with a waved, but not angulated, curve ; colour 

 generally of a fine green, with a yellowish tinge, the hinder portion of the 

 elytra of a reddish tinge, rarely greenish ; on their disc is an interrupted 

 row of fuscous spots, and a larger whitish one placed obliquely ; in the 

 males they are slightly dilated, and the apex is considerably attenuated; 

 legs dull testaceous, clouded with dusky. 



Not uncommon within the metropolitan district in June, fre- 

 quenting meadows, &;c. 



Sp. 20. haemorrhoidalis. Thoracis carinis lateralibus antice angulatis ; fusca, 

 elytris fusco alboque maculatis, margine postico albo, aut viridi, abdominis 

 ultima parte (^prwserttm maris) coccined. (Long. corp. 8 — 11 lin.) 



Gr. haemorrhoidalis. Charpentier Horw Ent. p. 165. — Lo. obscura. Steph. 

 " Catal. 309. No. 3334. 



Thorax with its lateral carinae angulated anteriorly ; fuscous ; head in the 

 males considerably deflexed; thorax red-brown, sometimes green, with a 

 black streak on each side accompanying the carinas ; elytra narrow, scarcely 

 longer than the abdomen, with several dusky spots alternating with pale 

 ones, placed in the middle ; the hinder margin is clearer, and of a whitish 

 or green hue, tinted with bluish ; in the females the markings are stronger, 

 and the hinder portion is generally of a more or less brilliant white, rarely 

 greenish ; this sex has sometimes a broad whitish streak on the head and 

 thorax> extending backwards, to the apex of the elytra, when they are 



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