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included. The first in order, C. io -punctata, L. ( variabilis , Ill.), has 
been referred to previously as being one of our most variable species. 
It is common and generally distributed, and may readily be recognised 
by the yellow legs when other characteristics are wanting. C. 
hieroglyphica, L., occurs in heathy places, and is generally common. 
At Esher, Farnham, Shirley, West Wickham, and other localities in 
Surrey it can be taken abundantly by sweeping heath, the black vars. 
being almost commoner than the type form. C. i \-punctata is occa¬ 
sionally abundant on the banks of the Thames and other places near 
London. A considerable variation is exhibited in the spot-markings 
on the elytra; sometimes the spots are entirely confluent, and in the 
Irish exhibits by Rev. W. F. Johnson and Mr. H. G. Cuthbert the 
whole of the specimens are of this character. The Rev. W. F. Johnson 
writes me that the type form of this species is rare in Ireland. The 
variety occurs also at Farnham (Surrey), Rainham (Essex) and 
Yarmouth. C. 5- pujicicitci , L. is a northern insect, and I have no 
authentic information concerning it. C. 7- punctata , L., though 
generally common everywhere, can be best obtained by sweeping the 
rank grass at sides of meadows. It is also common on heath, and 
widely distributed. C. disiincta , Fald. ( labilis , Mulsant) closely 
resembles C. 7 -punctata, but the anterior angles of the thorax are much 
broader, more rounded, and not so projecting ; and the apex of the 
episterna of the metasternum is white. The species appears to be 
local rather than common, and occurs in various parts of Surrey, Kent, 
and Sussex. 
Halyzia, Mulsant. — As very little reliable information is to be 
obtained respecting H. 1 2-guttata, 1 it must be passed over for the 
present. The next in order, H. 16-guttata , is said to frequent young 
birches and other trees, but none of my correspondents record any 
capture of this species. H. \\-guttata , L. can hardly be considered 
common, as it never turns up in any numbers. It occurs in the 
London district (that is to say, the district as recently defined very 
properly by the City of London Entomological and Natural History 
Society), Esher (on wild sage), Farnham, etc. Three specimens were 
captured by Mr. H. G. Cuthbert in the Dublin district during the 
autumn of 1891. H. 18 -guttata abounds in fir plantations in south of 
England and elsewhere. Two of the series exhibited were sent me by 
Mr. Cuthbert, who captured them in Dublin district, in autumn of 
1891. H. conglobata , L. (C. 14-punctata , L.) is found commonly by 
sweeping sides of lanes, banks of nettles, etc., everywhere. H.. 
22-punctata is generally common in Surrey and elsewhere on banks and 
sometimes on nettles. 
In noticing the variation of this group, Mr. Tutt remarked that 
some species had black specimens with a red dot on each of the 
elytra, whilst others were red and had a black dot. These dots, how¬ 
ever, were not interchangeable, the black dot being constant in position 
and spreading to form the black specimens, leaving, however, a small 
portion of the ground colour (posterior to the original black dot), to 
form, as it were, a red dot, which w T as, therefore, not in the same 
position, nor did it replace the original black dot. Messrs. Heasler 
1 It may be as well to note here that the term “ guttata ” is applied to the white- 
spotted species.—G. A. L. 
