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number of specimens in North Wales in 1829, among which scarcely a 
single male was observed. 
C. tessellatus, F., nec L. (Actenicerus sjelandicus, Miull.). Of a 
somewhat obscure geneous colour, with violet, coppery or bronze re- 
flection, clothed with fine and rather close greyish pubescence, which is 
often arranged on the elytra in more or less distinct tessellate patches ; 
head closely punctured, antennee black or pitchy, obtusely serrate ; 
thorax a little longer than broad, with sides rounded and narrowed in 
front, thickly and rather strongly punctured, more closely at sides where 
the punctuation is more or less rugose, often with a small impression on 
each side before middle, central furrow obsolete, posterior angles pro- 
jecting, ecarinate, and somewhat divaricate ; scutellum large; elytra 
with fine and scarcely punctured striz, which are deep at base, inter- 
stices very finely punctured ; legs pitehy. L. 12-14 mm. 
Male with the antennz longer and the last joint elongate, female with 
the antenne shorter and the last joint oval. 
Marshy places; in moss and by sweeping; local ; London district, not common, 
Esher, Wimbledon, Battersea Fields, Woking, Epping Forest; New Forest; Glan- 
villes Wootton (abundant) ; Woodbastwick ; Wicken and Burwell Fens; Suffolk ; 
Horning Fen; Swansea; Carrington Moss; Hale Moss; Chat Moss; Bewdley; 
Knowle; Repton; Bowdon, Manchester; Northumberland and Durham district, not 
common ; Scotland, local, Tweed, Solway, Clyde, Argyle, Tay, Dee, and Moray 
districts; Ireland, near Dublin. 
C. quercus, Gyll. (¢ncanus, Gyll.; Liotrichus quercus, Kies.). The 
smallest of our species with the exception of C. bipustulatus ; elongate, 
narrow and parallel-sided, clothed with very fine greyish pubescence ; 
colour leaden black ; head and front margin of thorax thickly and 
rather strongly punctured, antenne moderate, feebly serrate from the 
third joint inclusive ; thorax, exeept anterior margin, very closely and 
finely punctured, much longer than broad, with very obsolete central 
furrow, which is often scarcely traceable, posterior angles prominent 
and carinate ; elytra parallel, with rather distinct strie, interstices finely 
and closely punctured, often more or less rugose; legs lighter or darker 
pitchy or testaceous ; under-side black with whitish pubescence. L. 
7-8 mm. 
Male with the antenne longer than in female, and the last joint a 
little more elongate. 
Grassy places; by sweeping; also by beating low trees ; not common in the London 
district or the south; Birch and Darenth Woods, Chobham, Dulwich, Belvedere ; 
New Forest; common and generally distributed from the Midlands northwards; 
Scotland, common, Solway, Tay, and Dee districts; Ireland, Armagh, Dublin, Belfast, 
Newcastle co, Down, Donegal, &e. 
V. ochropterus, Steph. This variety has the elytra entirely of a 
yellowish-testaceous colour; it is found with the type, but not so 
commonly. 
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