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the same, distinctly punctate-striate ; body brassy-black beneath ; legs 

 rusty-red, hinder thighs greenish-brass, or violet ; antenna 1 red. (L. 1- 

 1^1.) Grassy places : Coombe and Daren th woods, &c. ; Weston; S. 

 Wales; Raehills : 4-8. 



2383 globosum Pz. F. xxv. f. 13. — Ste. M. iv. 329. — Somewhat hemi- 

 spheric; black, shining ; head and thorax finely punctured ; elytra faintly 

 punctate-striate ; legs pitchy-red, hinder thighs black ; antennae pale pitchy - 

 red. (L. 1^1.) Grassy places : London district : 6. 



§ B. Thorax with a transverse furrow. 



2384 Mercurialis Hellwig. — III. M. vi. 117. —Ste. M. iv. 330. — Oval- 

 hemispheric ; shining black ; above deep blue, and very finely punctured ; 

 thoracic furrow terminating at each end in a fovea ; legs black, hinder 

 thighs bluish ; antennae pitchy-red at the base. (L. f-ljp 1.) On Mer- 

 curialis perennis : Darenth Wood ; Hertford ; Bristol ; S. Wales : 6. 



488 Mniophila Stephens. 

 2385 Muscorum Ent. H. ii. 48. pi. 2. f. 1 2. — Ste. M. iv. 330. — Ovate- 

 globose ; deep shining brassy-black ; elytra punctate, punctures somewhat 

 disposed in striae and not very deep ; legs and antennae entirely red. 

 (L. -|-| 1.) In moss: London district, at Birch Wood and Highgate : 

 10-7. 



Fam. 58. CHRYSOMELID^ Leach. 

 (cccclxxxix. Colaspis Head vertical, retracted : ant. nearly as long as the 

 body, somewhat filiform, being slightly thickened at the apex : palpi fili- 

 form : body ovate : legs moderate. ) 

 ccccxc. Eumolpus Head vertical, retracted : ant. nearly as long as the body, 

 thickened at the tips : palpi with the apex incrassate : eyes prominent : 

 tho. narrower than the elytra, gibbous : body elongate-ovate : legs longish. 

 ccccxci. Cryptocephalus Head small, vertical, retracted : ant. as long as 

 the body, filiform, simple : tho. globose, nearly as wide as the elytra, the 

 latter not covering the apex of the abdomen : body short, cylindric : legs 

 short, 

 ccccxcii. Clythra Head vertical, deeply retracted : ant. very short, ser- 

 rated : palpi thickened in the middle : tho. transverse, margined : body 

 oblong-cylindric : legs short, anterior sometimes elongate in the $ . 

 ccccxciii. Melasoma Head exserted ; small : ant. short, somewhat clavate 

 and compressed : palpi filiform, truncate : tho. transverse, much narrower 

 than the elytra, the latter ample : icings 2. 

 ccccxciv. Timarcha Head exserted, small : ant. moderate, moniliform : 

 palpi long, terminal joint somewhat hatchet-shaped : elytra soldered to- 

 gether : body nearly hemispheric : ivings 0. 

 ccccxcv. Chrysomela Head exserted : ant. shortish, gradually thickening 

 to the apex : palpi somewhat hatchet-shaped : tho. transverse, nearly as 

 wide at the base as the elytra : body very convex : wings 2. 

 ccccxcvi. Helodes Head exserted, narrowed in front : ant. scarcely longer 

 than the tho., the latter 4-drate, slightly notched in front : palpi thickened 

 in the middle : body elongate, somewhat linear, flatfish : legs very short : 

 wings 2. 

 ccccxcvii. Ph^edon Head exserted, small : ant. moderate, thickened at the 

 apex : palpi filiform, apex acute or obtuse, not truncate : tho. transverse : 

 body oblong-ovate, or somewhat hemispheric : wings 2. 



(489 Colaspis Fabricius.) 

 (2386 f flavicornis Fab. E. i. 412. — Ste. M. iv. 364. note. — Brassy- 

 green ; punctate ; beneath brassy-black ; antennae and legs yellow ; elytra 



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