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[June 



from Deal, exhibited at City of London Society. Recorded from 

 Folkestone by Mr. A. J. Chitty. Ireland — -Belfast district, taken by 

 the Rev. J. Bristow and the late Dr. Templeton ; one specimen having 

 been presented to Mr. Johnson. 



2. The single representative of this division is 5. quadripunctata, L. 

 This species has the four terminal joints of the antennae produced 

 and resembling a club. It is unlike the other members of the genus 

 in colour of elytra, which is testaceous, and has four round black spots, 

 that is two at the base and two slightly behind the middle. The 

 beetle is found on trees, its food being chiefly lepidopterous larvae, and 

 it appears to be especially partial to those of C. brumata. The beetle 

 occurs at Loughton on oaks and hornbeam, and has frequently been 

 exhibited at the City of London Society by various entomologists. 

 Specimens have also been brought from Brockenhurst and other parts 

 of the New Forest. The Rev. A. E. Hodson used to take numbers 

 in the Forest of Dean. Mr. G. C. Champion (Kent and Surrey 

 Coleoptera) records it as not uncommon on oaks at Coombe Wood, 

 Darenth Wood, &c. Several Midland localities are specified by 

 Canon Fowler, but the beetle appears to be rarer further north and in 

 Scotland. Ireland : The Dargle, county Wicklow (McNab's Dublin 

 List, 1878). 



3. 5. reticulata, F., represents this division in Britain, but it must 

 be an exceedingly rare species, as Mr. Champion's is the only reliable 

 record we have to hand ; the locality given by him is Battersea fields, 

 a place which, for entomological purpose, has practically ceased to 

 exist. Mr. A. J. Chitty writes that he has "a specimen from F. 

 Smith's collection, without locality." The antennae of this beetle have 

 the second joint twice as long as third, the seventh joint slightly 

 narrower than eighth, and terminate in a gradual club. The interstices 

 of the elytra are coarsely punctured, without tubercle behind middle. 



4. 5. opaca, L., differs from the preceding in having the second 

 joint of the antennae only slightly longer than third, the seventh joint 

 is not nearly so stout as eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, which 

 together form a strong club. The interstices of the elytra are finely 

 punctured, with a strong tubercle at end of third keel behind the 

 middle. The beetle is local and uncommon in England ; found 

 mostly in carcases, moss, &c, Sheerness, Deal, Whitstable, Coombe 

 Wood, Woking, &c. (G. C. Champion, Kent and Surrey Coleoptera) ; 

 it is rather common in Scotland, but abundant in the Orkney. Mr. 

 A. J. Chitty captured a specimen struggling on the sandhills in a very 

 high wind on Woolacombe Sands, North Devon, in May. Ireland :— 

 Recorded from Portmarnock, county Dublin, by McNabb, and near 

 Belfast, by Haliday. A specimen sent me last year was picked up at 

 Lough S willy, in Donegal (W.F.J.). ^ ^ 



