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abbreviated on the lateral margin : legs brassy : antennae fuscescent^ with 

 the three basal joints pale beneath. 



Eabricius says his Ne. sanguinicoUis has the body and elytra fuscous^ and that 

 one sex has the hinder femora incrassated : he also describes his Ne. fulvi- 

 collis as having the apex of the abdomen fulvous ; neither of which charac- 

 ters agree with the indigenous insect ; but, as Panzer's figure and descrip- 

 tion correspond^ I have reverted to his name, as originally placed in my 

 cabinet. 

 Rare ; found on flowers, in decayed trees in Windsor and the 



New Forests ; near Bristol, and in Ireland. " New Forest in June 



lastr— Revs. F. W. Hope and G. T. Rudd. 



Sp. 3. caervilea. Cceruleo-virescens, antennis nigris, elytris coriaceis, opacis, 



lineis tribus elevatis. (Long. corp. 3 — 4§ lin.) 

 Ca. caerulea. Linne. — CEd. ca£rulescens. Steph. Catal. 251. No. 2497. 



Blue-green, finely punctured and slightly pubescent : thorax short, glossy, 

 unequal, narrowed behind, with the disc irregularly foveolated: elytra sub- 

 linear, opaque, thickly and rather deeply rugose-punctate, each with three 

 slightly elevated parallel lines, reaching nearly to the apex, and a very short 

 one on the outer margin : legs bluish-green, with the tibiae and tarsi 

 fuscescent : antennce black. 



Linnaeus was evidently acquainted with this species, as well as with (Edemera 

 caerulea, and as the latter insect does not appear, either from his works or from 

 the subsequent labours of Swedish entomologists, to be indigenous to Sweden, 

 the reference given by Mr. Curtis to the Fauna Suecica is unquestionably 

 erroneous ; and as Gyllenhal refers the Linnean variety with black antennae 

 to this species, I have followed his example. 



Much less common than the precedmg insect : it however occurs 

 not unfrequently at Darenth in June, and also in Norfolk, Suffolk, 

 Dorsetshire, Devonshire, &c. " New Forest." — Rev. A. H. 

 Matthews. " Tavistock-square, London."" — Mr. Ingpen. 

 B. Elytra attenuated posteriorly. 



Sp. 5. lurida. Obscure cceruleo-virescens punctatissima, thorace breviori, elytris 

 elongatis subattenuatis. (Long. corp. 2| — 4 lin.) 



-|-Sp. 4. viridissima. Viridi-oenea, punctatissima, antennarum basi pedibusque 



testaceis, geniculis nigris. (Long. corp. 4 lin.) 

 Ne. viridissima. Fabricius. — Turton. (!) — (Ed. viridissima. Steph. Catal. 

 251. A^o. 2496, note. 



Brassy-green, punctured, with the base of.the antennae and the legs testaceous, 



the johits of the latter black. 

 Indicated, though improperly, as British by Turton. 



