166 CLAVICOUNIA. [Halyzia. 



II. Elytra light yellow with black, more or less 



angular, and often confluent, spots . . . H. CONGLOBATA, L. 



(quatuordecimpunctata, L.) 



III. Elytra of a bright lemon colour with plainly 

 marked, usually round, spots, seldom con- 

 fluent, as a rule eleven in number on each . H. VIGINTIDTTOPUNCTATA, L. 



K. 12-g-uttata, Poda. (s.g. Vilidia, Muls.). Convex, hemispherical, 

 of a luteous or yellowish-testaceous colour ; thorax thickly punctured, 

 with white borders, somewhat transparent in front and at sides ; elytra 

 strongly and unevenly punctured with six whitish spots on each, 

 narrowly margined ; under-side and legs testaceous or reddish-testaceous. 

 L. 3-4 mm. 



Male with the fifth ventral segment broadly emarginate at apex. 



On firs, alders and other trees ; very rare in Britain ; Scotland, " Raehills, Rev. 

 W. Little," Murray's Cat. ; Ireland, near Belfast, Haliday ; it is possible, however, 

 tbat there may be some mistake as to these records ; the only specimen I have seen 

 was a pinned one in Griesbach's collection, now in the possession of Mr. Mason ; the 

 species is common in France and extends through Europe and Siberia to Japan, 

 Stephens records it as taken in some numbers in 1815 and 1816 in Windsor Forest 

 and near Bristol. 



K. 16-gruttata, L. Oval, subhemispherical, moderately convex, of 

 a luteous or yellowish-testaceous colour ; thorax with broad pellucid 

 whitish lateral margins, and the anterior margin also more narrowly 

 pellucid, very finely punctured ; elytra less strongly and unevenly 

 punctured than in the preceding species, with broad pellucid margins, 

 hiteous with eight whitish spots on each; epimera of metasternum 

 yellowish-white, the colour, however, often fading after death ; legs 

 yellowish-testaceous. L. 5-6 mm. 



Male with the sixth ventral segment emargindte in a semicircle at 

 apex, and the epipleurse of the elytra more strongly dilated than in 

 female. 



By beating young birches and other trees in hedges and woods ; local j London 

 district, not uncommon, Mickleham, Coombe Wood, Esher, Sheerness, Whitstable ; 

 Norfolk ; Hastings ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Devon ; Swansea ; Scotland, rare, on 

 birches, Solway, Forth, Tay, Dee, and Moray districts. 



K. 14-g-uttata, L. (s.g. Calvia, Muls.). Hemispherical, of a rufous- 

 brown or castaneous colour, with the metasternum and middle of abdo- 

 men black ; thorax very thickly and finely punctured with a lunulate 

 whitish side border, the spot at posterior angles being sometimes con- 

 spicuous ; the anterior margin and median line are usually more or less 

 whitish ; elytra closely, unevenly, and distinctly punctured, with seven 

 whitish spots on each (arranged 1, 3, 2, 1), which are, in many cases, 

 slightly ocellate, being often surrounded with a narrow darker border ; 

 epimera of mesosternum white; legs brownish or reddish-testaceous. 

 L. 4-5 mm. 



Male with the sixth ventral segment subtruncate at apex. 



