Clinocara. | HETEROMERA. 37 
CLINOCARA, Thomson. 
This genus contains about half-a-dozen European species, of which two 
occur in Britain ; they may be known from Orchesia by having the eyes 
distant behind, the antenne more slender, the maxillary palpi not 
serrate, with the last joint somewhat ovate and only slightly securiform ; 
the anterior tibia have indistinct spurs; in general appearance and 
habits they much resemble Orchesia, with which they have usually been 
included. 
J. Elytra pitchy-black or brown, without yellow bands, 
unicolorous or obscurely lighter towards base and apex ; 
antenne less evidently thickened towards apex . . . . C. TETRATOMA, Thoms. 
II, Elytra dark with waved yellow bands; antenne more 
evidently thickened towards apex . . . .. . . . C. UNDULATA, Kr. 
C. tetratoma, Thoms. (minor, Walk.; sepicola, Ros.; micans, 
var. b., Zett.). Smaller and darker than Orchesia micans, which it very 
closely resembles, and from which it may at once be known by the longer 
and much more slender antenne, of which the last four joints are 
slightly thickened, and by the much stronger impressions on each side of 
the base of the thorax; pubescence short, very thick, and fine; punc- 
tuation extremely close and fine, subrugose or asperate ; elytra some- 
times lighter at shoulders and towards base ; head small, detlexed, eyes 
not approximate on vertex ; thorax as broad as elytra, transverse, much 
narrowed in front ; elytra gradually narrowed towards apex ; legs pitchy- 
red or brownish, first joint of posterior tarsi at least as long as all the 
following; under-side pitchy. L. 25-3 mn. 
In fungoid growth on old trees ; occasionally by sweeping; very local and, as a rule, 
rare; Caterham (Champion) ; Birdbrook, Essex (Power) ; Glanvilles Wootton (one 
specimen, Wollaston) ; New Forest; Bewdley (Blatch); Gumley, Market Harborough 
(Matthews, in some numbers); Repton, near Burton-on-Trent (W. Garneys) ; Sprid- 
lington, near Lincoln (Wollaston) ; Scarborough and Pickering, Yorkshire Lawson) ; 
Northumberland and Durham district, near Gilsland, Swalwell, aud at Morpeth; also 
at’ Rothley (Power) ; Scotland, rare, on flowers of mountain ash, Clyde, Tay, Dee, 
and Moray districts, Lanark, Braemar, Aviemore, &c. 
I believe the synonymy above given to be the correct one, but I have 
not actually seen a specimen of Thomson’s C. tetratoma; Orchesia 
minor does not appear in the last European catalogue. 
G. undulata, Kr. (/asciata, Thoms., nec Payk.). Elongate, rather 
depressed on disc, somewhat acuminate behind, thickly clothed with 
silky yellowish pubescence ; head red, very finely punctured, antenne 
red, or pitchy with base and apex red, with the last four or five joints 
thickened, less slender than in C. tetratoma, but longer and much less 
thickened than in O. micans; thorax red in front, testaceous with more 
or less obscure dark markings behind, sometimes almost entirely tes- 
taceous, very finely and somewhat rugosely punctured, with the sides 
strongly rounded and narrowed in front, and with a plain impression on 
