COCCINELLID.E. CHILOCOIIUS. 375 



Sp. 4. rufipes. Niger, capite antice thoracis laterihus abdotninis Umbo pedibusque 



rufis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 

 Ch. hgemorrhoidalis. Steph. Catal. 230. No. 2360. — Not Co. haemorrhoidalis. 



Thunberg. 



Convex, black : head entirely and lateral margins of the thorax widely rufous : 

 elytra finely punctulated entirely black : margins of the abdomen rufous : 

 legs totally rufous. 



Var. /3. With the head almost entirely black ; the mouth alone rufous. 



I have hitherto seen two specimens only of this very distinct spe- 

 cies, one of which was captured near Windsor in June 1816, the 

 other I obtained from the vicinity of Bristol. 



Sp. 5. quadriverrucatus. Niger, elytrorum lunula humerali, pustuld pone 



medium anoque ruhris. (Long. corp. 1| — 2 lin.) 

 Co. 4-verrucata. Fabricius. — Ch. 4-verrucatus. Steph. Catal. 220. No. 2361. 



— Co. Cassidoides. Don. vii. pi. 243. f. 3. 



Convex, black : elytra each with a lunular hwneral spot, and a rounded pustule 

 on the back, behind the middle, towards the suture, rufous : posterior mar- 

 gins of the abdomen pale rufous; joints of the legs and the tarsi beneath 

 also rufescent. 



Var. j8. With the spot on the shoulder of the elytra narrow and distinctly 



lunate, the posterior dorsal spot minute. 

 Var. y. Elytra totally black. 



Immature specimens ate fuscous in lieu of black. 



Extremely common on oaks in woody places throughout the 

 metropolitan district in June. "York." — W. C Hewitsoti, Esq. 

 '■' Cambridge." — C. C. Babington, Esq. " Prestwick-car, New- 

 castle, &c." — G. Wailes, Esq. " On Crwmlyn-bog." — L. W. 

 Dillwyn, Esq. "Weston." — Rev. A. H. Matthews. "Arma- 

 thwaite." — T. C. Hey sham, Esq. 



Black: elytra each with a large rounded rufous spot: breast and abdomen 

 entirely rufous. 



I obtained a pair of this species from Mr. Francillon's cabinet, doubtless intro- 

 duced in mistake for the preceding species. 



