176 CLAVICOIINIA. \_Cliilocorus. 



sixth conspicuous, female with the fifth segment broadly rounded, and 

 the sixth almost hidden. 



In woods, hedges, &a. ; occasionally by beating ; local ; not uncommon in the 

 London and southern districts, but rarer further north ; Bristol ; Swansea ; Oxford- 

 shire; Wicken Fen; Ripon ; Liverpool; the only Scotch record is from the Sol way 

 district, " Raehills, Rev. W. Little " (Steph. 111. iv. 374). 



C. bipustulatus, L. Much smaller than the preceding and easily 

 distinguished by having a narrow transverse reddish band about the 

 middle of each elytron which is formed of three spots which are usually 

 more or less confluent, but sometimes separate ; the head also is red ; 

 under-side black with sides and fifth segment of abdomen reddish-yellow ; 

 elytra very finely punctured on disc, rather strongly at sides ; legs 

 black, with knees red. L. 2|-3| mm. 



Sandy places; by sweeping heath, &c. ; locally common ; London district, common 

 in many localities ; Hastings; Southampton; New Forest; Devon ; Swansea ; Suttoa 

 Park ; Canuock Chase ; Sherwood Forest ; York ; Chat Moss ; Liverpool ; not re- 

 corded from Northumberland ; Scotland, rare, Sohvay and Forth districts. 



EXOCHOIVIUS, Eedtenbacher. 



Between twenty and thirty species are contained in this genus ; they 

 are less tropical in their distribution than the preceding, although 

 several have been described from Brazil, Cayenne, Madagascar, Cuba, 

 &c. ; six occur in Europe, of which two have generally been regarded 

 as British ; E. auritus, however, appears to be very doubtfully indi- 

 genous ; the species resemble Chilocorus at first sight, but are less con- 

 vex and not gibbose, and the clypeus is, as a rule, not dilated and 

 lobed at sides ; the labrum moreover is distinct, and the anterior tibiae 

 have no tooth on their outer margin. 



E. quadripustulatus, L. (i-verntcatus, F.). Moderately convex, 

 subhemispherical, black, occasionally brownish or reddish-brown, shining; 

 elytra with a lunulate reddish patch at shoulder and a smaller somewhat 

 transverse patch of the same colour behind middle near suture ; thorax 

 much narrower than elytra, very transverse, very finely punctured ; 

 elytra with distinct margins, very finely punctured, more distinctly at 

 sides; apex of abdomen yellowish ; legs black. L. 3j[ 4| mm. 



Male with the sixth ventral segment of abdomen emarginate at apex, 

 disclosing seventh, female with the same segment broadly rounded. 



On white-thorn blossom, broom, low firs, &c. ; locally common ; London district, 

 generally distributed ; Hastings ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Devon ; Barinouth ; Coles. 

 hill; Tarn worth ; Staffordshire; Chat Moss; Scarborough; Manchester; North- 

 umberland and Durham district; Scotland, local, Sohvay, Tweed, Tay, and Moray 

 districts; it probably occurs in several parts of Ireland. 



(E. auritus, Scriba; nigromaculatus, Goeze. In this species the upper 

 surface is black or bronze-black, with the sides of the thorax and the 



