286 PHYTOPHAGA. [Clythra. 
third joint of the latter being bifid; the claws are simple; the genus 
contains forty species, of which eight are found in Europe and the 
remainder are widely distributed from Siberia to the Cape of Good 
Hope ; only one or two appear to have been found as yet in the New 
World; there is one British species, and a second has sometimes been 
included in our lists, but it can hardly be regarded as indigenous. The 
larve of a considerable number of the species of Clythra have been 
described by different authors ; they inhabit hairy cases of a leathery- 
like material, which they drag about with them; the head is protruded 
from the narrow end ; when full fed the insect retires into its case and 
changes to a curved pupa; the larve are rather thick and fleshy, and 
are curved behind as in the Lamellicornia; they much resemble those 
of Cryptocephalus, both in form and in the fact that they inhabit cases. 
C. quadripunctata, L. Oblong, convex, subcylindrical, shining, 
black, with the elytra reddish-testaceous with two black spots on each, 
one near shoulder, and a larger one behind middle ; head depressed, 
rugose, antennew short, black, with the second and third joints entirely, 
and the fourth and fifth partly, red; thorax transverse, strongly 
narrowed in front, with large margins which are thickly punctured, 
disc finely punctured; scutcllum large; elytra distinctly, but not strongly, 
punctured, with traces of fine raised lines, sutural angles obtuse’; legs 
stout. L. 7-11 mm. 
Male with the last ventral segment furnished in middle with a broad, 
shining, obsolete impression ; female with the same segment furnished 
with a deep subtriangular impression at apex. 
On oaks, birches and hazels, and by sweeping herbage ; the larva is sometimes found 
in nests of Formica rufa; local, but not uncommon in some districts ; London 
district, rather common in places, Lee, Peckham, Chatham, Sandhurst, Woking, 
Epping Forest, Weybridge ; Whitstable; Hastings; Portsmouth district; Sonth- 
ampton; New Forest; Whitsand Bay, Plymouth; Fordlands, Devon ; Swansea ; 
Llangollen ; Burnt Wood, Staffordshire; Bewdley; Trench Woods, Bromsgrove ; 
Hopwas Wood, Tamworth ; Northumberland district, Newcastle, &c.; Scotland, rare, 
Tay, Dee, and Moray districts. 
(C. leviuscula, Ratz. This species appears to be very closely allied to 
the preceding, from which it differs in having the dise of the thorax 
hardly perceptibly punctured and its margins narrow, and the sutural 
angles of the elytra rounded ; the black patches on the elytra are some- 
what differently shaped, that near the shoulders being larger.  L. 
7-11 mm. 
Mr. Crotch introduced the species on the authority of two old specimens 
without locality which he found mixed with C. guadripunctata ; the 
species requires confirmation before it can be regarded as indigenous. 
CRYPTOCEPHALINA 
This tribe contains about forty genera, of which by far the most 
important is Cryptocephalus, which is the only one that is represented 
in the British fauna; the only other genera found in Europe are Pachy- 
