214 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



Chrysomela 10-punctata j8. (Linn. Syst. Nat. ii, 590, 32) is by many authors 

 referred to as synonymous with C. nifipes De Geer, but it appears from the descrip- 

 tion of that variety in the first edition of the Fauna Suecica (p. 1354) that it had 

 black legs, and therefore belongs to C. nigripes De Geer. By Linne's considering 

 the black-legged species as his variety (Z, it seems not improbable that a had red 

 legs. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The American differs a little from the British specimens. In the first place it is scarcely half 

 the size, not only the mouth but the space before and between the eyes is rufous, only the vertex 

 and occiput being black : the black spot of the prothorax, instead of consisting of two distinct spots 

 connected only at their base, is only divided at its apex into two lobes, and the spots of the elytra, 

 though similarly arranged, are less distinct : they agree in having the body underneath, except the 

 rufous anus, black ; and the legs rufous. 



CXIV. * Genus PK2EDON. Meg. 



Labrum transverse, scarcely notched. 



Palpi (maxillary) four-jointed ; first joint minute ; second longer than the rest incrassated at the 



apex ; third as large, or larger than the fourth, triangular ; fourth rather conical, truncated. 

 Antennae scape incrassated ; pedicel shorter than the following joints ; third, fourth, and fifth longer 



and obconical ; five next triangular, larger than the antecedent ones and terminated by an 



ovate acute joint. 

 Body oblong ; eyes transverse, oblong ; prothorax transverse ; scutellum rounded at the apex ; 

 elytra rather soft, oblong, with punctures not arranged in rows. 



N. B. This genus is principally distinguished from Chrysomela by the last joint of the palpi 

 being smaller than the preceding one and of a different shape. 9 



(286) 1. Ph/edon Adonidis. Adonis-eating Phcedon. 



Chrysomela Adonidis. Pall. It. 463, 29. Fab. .Spec. Ins. i, 117, 10; Syst Eleuth. i, 431, 52. Herbst. Arch 56, 29, t. 

 xxiii,/. 17. Panz. Ent. Germ, i, 158, 10; Fn. Germ, c, t. iv. Oliv. Ent. v, 91, 560, 90. Hoppe. Taschen. 1796, 175, 

 24. Scrib. Journ. 22, 2, and 27, 12. Schrank. Naturf. xxiv, 65, 12. Hiibn. Naturf. xxiv, 38, 2. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 Gmel. iv, 1683, 140. Cards. Brit. Ins. iii, t. cxi. Steph. Illustr. Mandib. iv, 338, 1. 



trilineata. Fab. Gen. Ins. Mant. 219, 6—7. 



dorsalis. Fab. Gen. Ins. Mant. 220, 6—7. Shrank. Naturf. xxiv, 66, 13. Hiibn. Naturf. xxiv, 39, 3, t. ii, 



/. 2. Linn. Syst Nat. Gmel. iv, 1683. 141. 



Length of the body 3 — 4 lines. 



Several specimens taken in Lat. 54°. 



9 In Mr. Curtis's figure the palpi and maxillaa are those of the genuine Chrysomela:, which, as he could not dissect the 

 specimen in the British Museum, he has evidently given instead of those of P. Adonidis. 



