COCCINELLA. 159 



case, with a double spot, concealed by the thorax, the epistome often with a V-shaped 

 spot ; the mouth-parts are yellow. The thorax is about twice as wide as long, smooth, 

 and im punctate, the front margin straight with the angles prominent and defiexed ; the 

 markings consist of a broad M — this in the darker individuals may be a broad patch 

 enclosing two angular white spots, or may be composed of five or more spots, variously 

 united in different specimens, but it never quite reaches the front margin, and the two 

 triangular spots on the base are always distinct ; sometimes an additional " lateral " 

 comma-like spot is joined to the sides of the M. The elytra are only very finely and 

 obsoletely punctured ; they are pitchy-black or pitchy-brown ; the humeral and apical 

 white marks are elongate, following the margin, and narrowly joined to the middle 

 lateral spot, so that the whole margin with the epipleuree is white; the discoidal 

 white spot may be joined to the lateral median one, forming a broad fascia, and occa- 

 sionally it is united with the anterior one so as to form a common discoidal spot in the 

 less deeply coloured specimens. The legs are yellow. 



13. CoccineUa maculosa. (Tab. ix. fig. 5.) 



Oblongo-ovata, subdepressa, piceo-brunnea, creberrime subtilissime punctata, supra rufo-brunnea ; capitis basi, 

 prothoracis maculis septem, elytrorum maculis octo, duabus juxta basin, duabus juxta marginem, una 

 mediana, ad suturam hserente, tribus subapicalibus, fasciam obliquam undulatam preebentibus, nigris : 

 pedibus rufo-brunneis. Long. 5 millim. 



Hob. Mexico, Oaxaca (Hoge). 



The features by which this insect may be recognized are : — The rather flat depressed 

 form, like that of C. venusta ; the dark red-brown colour ; and the seven thoracic spots 

 — the two upper ones large and wedge-shaped, the two lower ones (or those repre- 

 senting the lower branches of the M) also large, and for the most part separate from the 

 upper, the middle one in the form of a dot, a little above the base, the two lateral ones 

 in the ordinary position. The elytra have spots of a deep blackish-brown colour : 

 the two discoidal or middle ones are large, joined to the brownish suture by a recurving 

 streak (somewhat as in C. venusta) ; the two lateral spots are a little behind the two 

 basal ones, and are elongate, and either very narrowly divided or united; of the three 

 subapical spots, the external two are confluent in both of the two examples obtained, 

 forming an undulate F-like mark, and are also just in contact with a square sutural 

 spot (which, however, would obviously be often detached) ; the punctuation is distinct 

 under a Coddington lens, but is very close and fine ; the entire limb is very narrowly 

 brownish ; the margin is hardly at all expanded. 



This species would, I think, be best placed next to C. venusta, on account of its flattish 

 form and the style of marking. I have only seen two specimens. 



14. Coccinella compta. (Tab. IX. fig. 6.) 



Breviter oblonga, parum ovata, nigra, nitida, fere glabra, supra alba ; prothorace nigro, margine antico et 

 lateral!, linea mediana basin haud attingente albidis ; elytris albis, macula in callo humerali, alteraque 



