COCCINELLA. 157 



9. Coccinella transversoguttata. (Tab. vili. fig. 26.) 



Coccinella transverso-guttata, Fald. Mem. Ac. Petr. (Sav. etr.) ii. p. 454 (1835) 1 ; Muls. Spec. Col. 



Trim, secur. p. 117 2 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 116 3 . 

 Coccinella quinque-notata, Kirby, Faun. Bor.-Am. iv. p. 230 4 ; Crotch, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1873, 



p. 370 5 . 

 Coccinella ephippiata, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 235 6 . 

 Coccinella transversalis, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim. se*cur. p. 117 7 . 

 Coccinella novem-stigma, Muls. loc. cit. p. 121 8 . 

 Coccinella sedakovii, Muls. loc. cit. p. 1020 9 . 

 Coccinella nugatoria, Muls. loc. cit. p. 1021 l0 . 

 Coccinella calif or nica, Mann. Bull. Mosc. xvi. p. 312 (1843) ". 



Eab. Boeeal Eukope, Lapland 6 , Dauria 9 , Siberia 1 2 3 5 , Irkutsk l 2 8 , Greenland 2 3 5 , 

 Behring and Kurile Islands 2 ; Japan 3 (Lewis). — Noeth Ameeica, Hudson's Bay 3 5 , 

 Canada 2 4 , Vancouver (coll. Crotch), United States 3 8 9 , Kansas 5 , Utah 5 , Cali- 

 fornia 3511 . — Mexico 35 (coll. Chevrolat 7 ), Atlixco (F.D.G.), Chalchicomula, Toluca 

 (SalU), Cordova, Las Vigas, Jalapa, Salazar (Edge). 



As might be expected in such a widely distributed species, a good deal of variation in 

 size and marking occurs. The Siberian and Greenland specimens often have the scutellar 

 spot united with the humeral one, forming a transverse band ; but examples occur in 

 Siberia with the spots detached, as they usually are in the specimens I have seen from 

 North and Central America, and then they so much resemble C. novem-notata as to be 

 frequently confounded with it. C. transversoguttata may, however, be distinguished 

 by the head having the front and the labrum almost entirely white, and by the front 

 margin of the thorax being narrowly edged with the same colour. Other fine distinc- 

 tions are also present. It is less ovate, and the surface of the elytra is scarcely 

 perceptibly punctate, even when viewed under a Coddington lens. The species is 

 common at times, and Herr Hoge obtained a good series of it at Las Vigas. 



10. Coccinella novem-notata. 



Coccinella novem-notata, Herbst, K'afer, v. p. 269, t. 55. fig. 8 1 ; Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 123 2 j 



Monogr. Coccin. p. 99 3 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 117 4 ; Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 370 5 . 

 Coccinella franciscana, Muls. Opusc. ent. hi. p. 19 (1853) a . 



Eab. Noeth Ameeica 1 , Canada, Montreal (coll. Gorham), United States 2 3 4 , Atlantic 

 region 5 , California 6 .— Mexico 2345. Guatemala 4 5 (Salle 2 3 ). 



I include this North- American species on the authority of Mulsant's works. It is 

 not represented in any collection I have examined from either Mexico or Guatemala, 

 and C. transversoguttata is often so difficult to separate from it, that the record needs 

 confirmation. 



Although Crotch 4 5 gives Mexico and Guatemala for this species, he is in this and 



