Clinocara.'] HETEROMEBA. 37 



CLINOCARA, Thomson. 



This genus contains about half-a-dozen European species, of which two 

 occur in Britain ; they may be known from Orchesia by having the eyes 

 distant behind, the antennae more slender, the maxillary palpi not 

 serrate, with the last joint somewhat ovate and only slightly securiform; 

 the anterior tibia? have indistinct spurs; in general appearance and 

 habits they much resemble Orchesia, with which they have usually been 

 included. 



I. Elytra pitchy-black or brown, without yellow bands, 

 ntiicolorous or obscurely lisliter towards ba-e an;l apex; 



airenna? less evidently thickened towards apex . . . . C. TETRATOMA, Thorns. 



II. Elytra dark with waved ye. low bands ; antenna; more 



evidently thickened towards apex C. USDFtATA, Iff. 



C. tetratoxna, Thorns, (minor, "Walk.; sepicola, Eos.; micans, 

 var. b., Zett.). Smaller and darker than Orchesia micans, which it very 

 closely resembles, and from which it may at once be known by the longer 

 aud much more slender antennae, of which the last fo.ir joints are 

 slightly thickened, and by the much stronger impressions on each side of 

 the base of the thorax ; pubescence short, very thick, and fine ; punc- 

 tuation extremely close and fine, subrugose or asperate ; elytra some- 

 times lighter at shoulders and towards base ; head small, detiexed, eyes 

 not approximate on vertex ; thorax as broad as elytra, transverse, much 

 narrowed in front ; elytra gradually narrowed towards apex : legs pitchy- 

 red or brownish, first joint of posterior tarsi at least as long as all the 

 following; under side pitchy. L. 2^-3 mm. 



In fungoid growth on old trees ; occasionally by sweeping ; very local and, as a rale, 

 rare ; Cuterham (Champion) ; Bitdbrook, Essex (Power) ; Glauvilles Wootton (one 

 specimen, \Vollastou); New Forest; Bewdley (Blatch) ; Gumley, Market Harborough 

 (Matthews, in some numbers) ; Uepton, near Burton-on-Trent (TV. Garneys) ; Sprid- 

 liugton, near Lincoln (Wollaston) ; Scarborough and Pickering. Yoikshire Lawson) ; 

 Northumberland and Durham district, near Gusland, Swalwell, aud at Morpeth ; also 

 at Rothley (Power); Scotland, rare, on flowers of mountain ash, Clyde, Tay, Dee,, 

 and Moray districts, Lanark, Braeinar, Aviemore, &c. 



I believe the synonymy above given to be the correct one, but I have 

 not actually seen a specimen of Thomson's C. tetratoma ; Orchesia 

 minnr does not appear in the last European catalogue. 



C. undulata, Kr. (fa*-iata, Thorns., nee Payk.). Elongate, rather 



depressed un dUe, somewhat acuminate behind, thickly clothed with 

 silky yellowish pubescence ; head red, very finely punctured, antennae 

 red, or pitchy with base and apex red, with the last four or five joints 

 thickened, less slender than in C. M'-atoma, but longer and much less 

 thickened than in O. mii-ans ; thorax red in front, testaceous with more 

 or less obscure dirk markings b-hiud, sometimes almost entirely tes- 

 taceous, very finely and somewhat rugosely punctured, with the sides 

 strongly louuded and narrowed in front, and with a plain impression on 



