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On young alders and hazels, white-thorn hedges, &c. ; generally distributed and 

 rather common throughout the kingdom ; it occurs in Siberia and North America. 



II. 18-g-uttata, L. (s.g. Myrrha, Muls.). Oval, moderately convex, 

 of a reddish-brown or castaneous colour with the under-side blackish in 

 middle ; thorax finely punctured, with anterior and side margins and 

 two spots at base whitish ; elytra distinctly punctured, with nine whitish 

 spots on each (arranged 2, 1, 3, 2, 1), the two at base of suture being 

 dentate and usually confluent, and together with the two spots at base 

 of thorax forming a sort of star-shaped figure ; pro- and mesosternum 

 and their side parts whitish ; legs reddish-testaceous. L. 3|-4 mm. 



On firs ; not uncommon in England and Wales, and generally distributed ; Bold 

 records it as common in the Northumberland district, but according to Dr. Sharp it 

 is rare in Scotland in the Solway, Tweed, and Forth districts ; Ireland, near Belfast 

 and Dublin. 



H. cong-lobata, L. (14-punctata, L. ; conglomerate Steph. 111.). 

 Short oval, subhemispherical, under-surface black, with the epimera of 

 the meso- and metasternum yellowish- white, the segments of the abdomen 

 being also marked with the same colour ; thorax very finely punctured, 

 yellow with six black spots which are usually more or less confluent ; 

 elytra distinctly, but mot strongly, punctured, yellow with seven quad- 

 rangular black spots on each, and the suture, as a rule, also black ; these 

 are extremely variable, and almost always more or less confluent ; in our 

 ordinary form three of these spots join the suture, and the two spots on 

 disc behind middle join the central of these three, the whole forming a 

 rough figure very like a face ; legs yellow, femora partly dark. L. 

 3-4 mm. 



Male with the sixth ventral segment small and linear and subtruncate 

 at apex. 



By sweeping herbage and beating hazel, oak and other trees in woods and hedges ; 

 not uncommon in the midland and southern districts of England and in Ireland, 

 but I can find no locality for the species further north than Sherwood Forest. 



XX. 22-punctata, L. (s.g. Thea, Muls.). A very conspicuous little 

 species ; hemispherical ; under-side black with the epimera of the meso- 

 and metasternum and the hinder portion of the episterna of metasternum 

 yellowish; upper surface of a bright lemon-yellow or sulphur colour, 

 finely and not very closely punctured; thorax with five black spots 

 which are usually all separate ; elytra with eleven more or less round 

 spots on each, the one at centre of side being very small, often confluent 

 with the one adjacent, and sometimes absent, legs black and yellowish- 

 red or yellowish. L. 2-3 mm. 



In hedges, woods, &c. ; found especially on nettles, but also on other plants ; 

 generally distributed and common throughout the greater part of England, but not 

 recorded from Scotland ; Ireland, near Waterford. 



