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speckled with yellow, brown, and black; legs yellow, tips of the 
tarsi black, the hinder tibie very indistinctly freckled with 
dusky. Length, 11—Expansion of wings, 22 lines. 
Var.—A semicircular cloud on the hinder part of the thorax, 
two spots near the base of the scutellum, and at times two before 
its apex, the greater portion of the elytra, and the nervures, 
delicately sanguineous. 
Abundant in Autumn, among long grass, (Festuca ovina and 
Aira flexuosa) in a wood on the summit of Lobley Hill; also on 
the coast of Berwickshire, where I met with it late in October, 
in the sea caverns on Geranium Robertianum. 
Genus III—APHRODES, Curtis. 
1. A. SPILOTOCEPHALA. 
Narrowish, elytra tapering to the tip, yellow, polished and 
shining ; head, thorax, and scutellum, especially the first, bright 
sulphur-yellow ; face of considerable length, but broader than in 
Typhlocyba, the central part yellow, or distinguished by rows of 
faint sometimes coalescent spots, or the rudiments of transverse 
ribs, its edges, and sometimes those of the clypeus separated from 
the cheeks, by blackish longitudinal lines; ocelli minute and 
remote, placed near the eyes on the verge of the forehead, testa- 
ceous ; four black spots on the top of the head, two approximating 
on the point, triangular, and two behind them, larger, trapezoidal, 
only narrowly separated from the eyes; a short fissure on the 
vertex ; eyes fuscous, with a white coat; antenne with the second 
joint fuscous at the base, the bristle long and fuscous at its tip; 
disc of the thorax faintly duskier or greenish; elytra glaucous, or 
greenish white when closed, with bright yellow nervures, costa 
and suture, the apex faintly embrowned ; yellowish when expanded ; 
wings glossy, the apex superiorly clouded, the nervures darkened ; 
abdomen pruinose black, with stripes down the sides, minute 
lateral incisions at the posterior borders of the segments, a band 
before the apex, and occasionally the apex itself, and a basal 
transverse band, yellow ; beneath with narrow white edges to the 
segments, apex of the last one brownish or yellow, and bristled 
with white; breast black, with yellow lateral specks, or with a 
