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number of specimens in North Wales in 1829, among which scarcely a 

 single male was observed. 



C. tessellatus, F., nee L. (Actenicerus sjcelandicus, Mull.). Of a 

 somewhat obscure aeneous 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, antennae 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, carinate, and somewhat divaricate ; scutellum large ; elytra 

 with fine and scarcely punctured striae, which are deep at base, inter- 

 stices very finely punctured; legs pitchy. L. 12-14 mm. 



Male with the antennae longer and the last joint elongate, female with 

 the antennae shorter and the last joint oval. 



Marshy places ; in moss and by sweeping ; local ; London district, not common, 

 Esher, Wimbledon, Buttersea Fields, Woking, Eppiug Forest ; .New Forest ; Glan- 

 villes Wootton (abundant) ; Woodbastwick ; Wickeii 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, uear Dublin. 



C. quercus, Gyll. (incanvs, 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, antennae moderate, feebly serrate from the 

 third joint inclusive ; thorax, except 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 striae, 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 antenna; longer than in female, and the last joint a 

 little more elongate. 



Grancy places ; by sweeping ; also by beating low trees ; not common in the London 

 district or the south; Birch and Darenth Woods, Chobham, Dulwicb, 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, <fec. 



V. ochropterut, 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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