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16. Coccinella pantherina. (Tab. IX. fig. 9.) 



Breviter oblongo-ovata, convexa, lutea, nitida, capitis basi maculaque duplici epistoraatis piceis ; prothoracia 

 disco nigro, margine antioo et laterali (ad angulum anticum latiore) lineaque mediana basin haud attingente 

 luteis ; elytris sutura late, margine apicali tenuiter, plagia suturae parallela in medium desinente, macula 

 oblonga pone medium suturae conjuncta, et tribus lateralibus irregularibns, attamen distinctis, una in callo 

 bumerali cuneiformi, nigris ; pedibus luteis. Long. 2| millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, Totonicapam 10,000 feet (Champion). 



This little species is of about the size and form of Brachyacantha lepida. The black 

 markings of the elytra are developed so as to leave only a reticulate yellow pattern, 

 and the puncturing is hardly visible, except under a Coddington-lens. The body 

 beneath is pitchy, with the exception of the abdomen, which is luteous. Two specimens 

 were captured in the pine-woods at Totonicapam. 



17. Coccinella quichensis. (Tab. IX. fig. 10.) 



Breviter ovata, lutea, elytris creberrime vix visibiliter punctatis ; capitis basi, epistomate, prothoracis signatura 

 litteram Y simulante, maculisque duabus basalibus nigris ; elytrorum sutura plagiisque quatuor (interioribus 

 vittam interruptam prebentibus) exterioribus, bis parallelis sed punctiformibus, nigro -subaeneis ; corpore 

 subtus pedibusque runs. Long. 4 millim. 



Hob. Guatemala, Quiche Mountains 7000 to 9000 feet (Champion). 



This is a broad, rather squarely built, depressed species, the markings of the thorax 

 somewhat suggestive of those of Chilomenes. Only one specimen has been received, and 

 the figure will convey a better idea of it than a long description. 



18. Coccinella ? 



Hab. Guatemala, near the city (Champion). 



A single specimen of a black variety of some species with the thorax narrowly 

 bordered in front and on the sides with yellow. The elytra each with an irregular 

 rather large red spot in their basal half. The legs red. 



19. Coccinella (?) ? 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



A single specimen of a small species. Sordid whitish-yellow. The thorax blackish 

 in the centre, the elytra each with a transverse black spot nearly in the middle. A 

 little like Cycloneda abdominalis *. 



Subfam. HALYZIILES. 



This subfamily corresponds to Mulsant's "Troisieme branche" — Halysiaires — 

 (Monogr. des Coccin. p. 101); it contains a very large proportion of the true Cocci- 

 nellidse from all parts of the world. 



* Tbe reference to the figure of G. concinna (Tab. IX. fig. 7) was accidentally omitted on p. 160. 



Biol. centk.-amer., Coleopt., Vol. VII., March 1892. Y* 



