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extending from the base to near the apex, where it becomes confluent with the second, both diverg- 

 ing towards the base and surrounding the upper branch of the sutural stripe ; there is a fourth 

 series of punctures at a little distance from the 'lateral margin, and the interstice between them is 

 impunctured ; epipleura dark-green. 



N. B. The two lower branches of the above stripe are surrounded by a common series of punctures. 



Variety B. Smaller, green-bronzed, green spots of the elytra more numerous, epipleura pallid. 

 C. Sutural stripe with only one branch, the two lower ones forming separate spots ; 

 epipleura pallid. 



This varying species may be known from the succeeding ones by the green colour of its body; all 

 the varieties are distinguished by the obtusangular spot at the shoulders of the elytra : the varying 

 number of green spots on these organs is produced by the separation of some of the irregular ones 

 into distinct ones, and the lower branches of the sutural stripe doing the same. Variety C comes 

 nearest to that figured by De Geer and Olivier. 



(281) 2. * Chrysomela confinis. Neighbouring Chrysomela. 



C. (confinis J ceneo-viridis, punctata ; antennis, palpis, pedibusque ferrugineis ,• elytris rvfo&centibus, margine laterali, vittaque 

 flexuosa discoidali pallidis, lineis insuper flexuosis, maculisque irregularibus, anco-vividibus, elevatisque. 



Neighbouring Chrysomela, bronzed-green, punctured ; antennae, palpi, and legs ferruginous; elytra rufescent with the late- 

 ral margin and a flexuose stripe of the disk pallid ; sides with flexuose lines and irregular spots of bronzed-green 

 and elevated. 



Length of the body 4£ lines. 



A single specimen taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Nearly related to the preceding species. Body oblong, obscurely bronzed-green, grossly punc- 

 tured. Palpi, antennae, legs, and rhinarium ferruginous : punctures of the prothorax scattered in 

 masses, with the interstices very minutely punctured : scutellum bronzed : elytra reddish with a 

 discoidal flexuose irregular pale stripe dilated at the base and towards the apex ; there are also two 

 flexuose dark-green discoidal stripes in the disk, the exterior one nearly reaching the base and the 

 interior approaching nearer to the apex, between these towards the base is a single oblong green 

 spot, and outside them are many irregular ones of the same colour ; all these spots and stripes are 

 convex and mostly circumscribed by punctures; there is a double series of punctures divero-ino- 

 towards the base ; and an oblique abbreviated one between these and the scutellum, as in many 

 Harpalidce, &c. ; the interstice between the double series is green at the base. There is a lateral 

 series of punctures also as in C. Philadelphica. 



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