Thomas Vernon Wollaston published this drawing in his book ‘Insecta Maderensia’ in 1854. In the book he thanks Westwood for providing the illustrations, ‘Particularly, however, would I draw attention to the valuable help which I have received from J. O. Westwood, Esq., whose pencil has been so elaborately employed in the figures which I am thus enabled to attach, and by whom many of the minutest of the dissections were accomplished, — with a degree of delicacy, moreover, to which I did not myself at the commencement of this Work (though I have since succeeded in anatomizing the larger portion of them, likewise) lay claim.’

Wollaston wrote the following about this species:

‘A truly indigenous insect, and perhaps one of the most anomalous of the Chrysomelae hitherto described [...] It is evidently of the greatest rarity,—being confined to the sylvan districts, and coming into existence about the middle or latter end of the summer. The only three examples which have, I believe, been as yet detected were captured by myself, on the leaves of the mountain Strawberry, at the edges of the Levada of the Ribeiro Frio, in August 1850. During my repeated researches in the same locality earlier in the season, I failed in discovering it ; and in all probability therefore it is an autumnal species.’