CHRYSOMELID.E. 215 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, punctured, sprinkled underneath with cinereous hairs. Vertex rufous with an 

 occipital black spot : prothorax reddish-yellow, with a large discoidal black spot reaching from base 

 to apex and constricted anteriorly ; on each side also there is a round black dot : scutellum black, 

 impunctured : elytra reddish-yellow, thickly punctured with scattered punctures ; suture black except 

 at the base; a black discoidal stripe or blotch reaching neither to the base nor the apex, anteriorly 

 obliquely truncated and posteriorly acute, also distinguishes these organs. 



Variety B. With the discoidal stripe acute at each extremity and smaller. 

 C. With the discoidal stripe evanescent. 



Mr. Stephens, in his Catalogue of British Insects, has placed this insect in his section of Chrys- 

 omela with securiform palpi, and elytra with punctures in rows. He was probably led to this by 

 Mr. Curtis's figure, in which the palpi, for the reasons lately assigned, are securiform, and the 

 punctures dispersed in rows, though Mr. Curtis describes the elytra as " somewhat irregularly- 

 punctured." In the American specimens, and Panzer's figure, there is not the least appearance 

 of rows. 



(287) 2. Ph./edon Raphani. Radish-eating Phcedon. 



Phsedon Raphani. Steph. IUustr. Mandib. iv, 336, 33. 



Chrysomela Raphani. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. i, 430, 47. Payk. Fn. Suec. ii, 62, 15. Herbst. Arch. 59, 42, t. xiii,/. 42. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. iv, 1690, 201. Brahm. 7ns. Kal. i, 68,221. Gyll. Ins. Suec. iu, 472, 19. Steph. Cat. 221, 



2271, 12. 



. ffinea. Fab. Mant. i, 75, 106. 



viridula. De Geer 7ns. v, 311, 19. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. iv, 1688, 179. 



Polygoni, variety (3. Linn. Fn. Suec. 520. 



Hypocha?ridis. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 184, 35. 



Galleruca Raphani. Fab. Ent. Syst. ii, 19, 26. Panz. Ent. Germ, i, 172, 11. 



Length of the body 2£ — 2J lines. 



Several taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong, punctured, glossy ; underneath black with the disk a little bronzed, above green 

 or green-gold. Head and prothorax minutely punctured ; five first joints of the antennas bronzed 

 and glossy; the remainder cinereous and obscure : scutellum impunctured, violet : elytra very thicklv 

 punctured, punctures not arranged in rows : parapleura confluently punctured : disk of the postpectus 

 bronzed and transversely striated with very slightly impressed striola?. 



In the female the abdomen, as in Ph. Polygoni, is often so distended with eggs as to make the 

 elytra appear abbreviated. 



Variety B. With the whole of the upper surface green, without any golden lustre. 



