Our cabinets contain only two British species of this fine 
genus. 
1. C. Sycophanta Linn. — Curtis B. E. pi. 330. S <—Int. to 
Ent. pi. l.f. 1. $ . 
Donovan (v. 14. pi. 477.) has figured under this name a 
North American insect, C. Scrutator Fab. : it is distinguished 
by its larger size, and by a shorter thorax margined with gold. 
Reaumur has given an interesting account of the economy 
of C. Sycophanta in his second volume, p. 455. The beetles 
live in trees, feeding upon caterpillars ; and their larvae de- 
vour those of the Bombyx processionea Linn., and are very 
gluttonous. 
I have always suspected that this beautiful insect, like Pa- 
pilio Podalirius , Vanessa Antiope , Melalontha Pullo , and many 
others, is only an occasional visitor of our island, for it has 
always been captured upon or near the sea-coast, and I be- 
lieve invariably in an exhausted state. The one found at 
Norwich in June was the furthest from the sea of any that I 
have heard of, and there the distance is inconsiderable. I saw 
this specimen soon after it was taken ; it was then quite dead, 
though not stiff. Last year a considerable number were found 
along the coast of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Sussex : Mr. Hewit- 
son obtained some from Lowestoft ; Mr. Waller Clifton picked 
up a fine specimen floating off Hastings; another was brought 
to Yarmouth found thirty miles from the shore; and Mr. 
Sparshall writes me word that some were found in the wash 
of the sea near that town, and several were taken on the shore 
feeding on putrid fish. It has also been met with at Aid- 
borough and South wold in Suffolk, and at Dartmouth in 
Devon. 
2. C. Inquisitor Linn. Paun. Suec. n. 789. — Eon 14 .pi. 504. 
— Panz. 8. 8. 
Half the size of C. Sycophanta , and similar to it in the 
sculpture, which is stronger and more evident. It is black, 
cupreous above, the margins bright green and green beneath. 
This handsome insect inhabits Oaks and White Thom 
hedges, and is found in June. It has been captured at Coombe 
and Darent, Norwood and Epping Forest; near Windsor it 
has been taken by Mr. H. Griesbach, and by the Rev. C. S. 
Bird near Burghfield, Berks. The late Mr. J. Hooker took 
one in St. Faith’s Wood, Norfolk, and Mr. Tardy has seen 
them flying amongst Oak-trees at Powerscourt in Ireland. 
Dr. Buckland has the elytra of a fossil beetle, belonging, I 
think, to this genus, or possibly to Mr. Kirby’s Adelium, a 
genus confined I believe to New Holland. 
The plant is Anthyllis miner aria (Kidney Vetch, or Ladies’ 
Finger). 
