180 CLAVICORNIA. [Mycetaci. 



transverse, with sides rounded, sparingly and finely punctured, with a 

 curved line on each side extending from base to apex ; elytra with 

 rows of large coarse punctures; legs reddish-testaceous. L. 1-1 1 mm. 



In haystack refuse, dung-heaps, corn-bins, &c. ; often in cellars about beer drip, 

 pings and in fungi in wine cellars, in company with CryptopTiagus cellaris, Atomaria 

 nigripennis, &c. ; generally distributed and common in the London and Southern 

 districts, and widely distributed in the Midlands ; not so common further north ; 

 Scotland, scarce, Solway, Tweed, and Forth districts. Ireland, near Belfast, Water- 

 ford, and Dublin, and probably common. The larva? occasionally bore into wine 

 corks in cellars, and may cause considerable damage. 



AX.EXXA, Stephens. 



In the Munich catalogue six species are mentioned as belonging to 

 this genus, which have been described from Europe and North and South 

 America ; in the catalogue, however, of Heyden, Reitter, and Weise, 

 fifteen species are described from Europe alone, of which eleven and one 

 variety have lately been introduced by Reitter ; it is probable, therefore, 

 that the genus will be found to be very extensive ; it has, by many 

 authors, been included under the Coccinellidse, probably on account of 

 its shape, which strongly resembles that of a small Scymnus ; it is, 

 however, distinct from that family by reason of the formation of the 

 tarsi. 



A. pilifera, Mull. (Sphesrosoma quercus, Steph.). Subglobose, 

 broadest about middle and narrowed in front and behind, of a dark 

 pitchy-black colour, or more or less ferruginous, or reddish, the colour 

 being somewhat variable ; upper surface thickly clothed with long, fine, 

 more or less erect pubescence ; thorax transverse, much narrowed in 

 front, exceedingly finely and hardly visibly punctured ; elytra rather 

 thickly and deeply punctured ; legs reddish-testaceous ; the antennae are 

 rather long, reddish-testaceous, terminated by a distinct three-jointed 

 club, the joints of which are of about equal breadth. L. 1 mm. 



In faggots, fungi, moss, dead leaves, at roots of grass, &c. ; locally common ; 

 London district generally distributed j St. Peter's, Kent ; Hastings; Devon; Suffolk, 

 on oaks (Stephens) ; Repton ; Lincoln, Langworth Wood, in faggots ; Northumber- 

 land district, rare, Whittle Dene. 



DAPSINA. 



This tribe is separated from the Endomychina, chiefly on account of 

 the formation of the prosternum, and the fact that the anterior cox 

 are contiguous ; the ligula also is smaller and differently shaped ; it 

 contains five European genera, of which one only is represented in 

 Britain. 



XiVCOPEBDXNA, LatreiUe. 

 About fifteen species have been described in this genus, of which five 



