168 COCCINELLID^. 



7. Psyllobora roei, (Tab. IX. fig. 17.) 



PsyUobora roei, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 187 * ; Monogr. Coccin. p. 141 2 ; Crotch, Rev. 

 Coccin. p. 142 3 . 

 Hab. Mexico 1 2 3 (Hope) ; Guatemala, near the city, Capetillo, Duenas, San Gero- 

 nimo, San Joaquin in Vera Paz (Champion). 



This insect does not appear to have been met with by any of our Mexican collectors. 

 The specimen figured is one from Guatemala city. 



CLEIS. 



Cleis, Mulsant, Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 208 (1850) ; Monogr. Coccin. p. 148. 



This is a most unsatisfactory genus, consisting of three species, which, according 

 to Crotch's collection, seem to have little to do with each other. The characters, 

 moreover, given by Mulsant, depending chiefly on the degree of emargination of the 

 prothorax in front, are absolutely valueless. Cleis lynx, however, is a more elongate 

 and depressed form than any Psyllobora, and reminds one of Anisosticta. What 

 Mulsant says of the mesosternum, " a peine echancre," applies equally well to Thea or 

 Psyllobora, besides being vague and unmeaning. 



1. Cleis mirifica. 



Cleis mirifica, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 209 l ; Monogr. Coccin. p. 149 2 . 

 Cleis lynx, var., Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 142. 



Hab. Mexico'? 12 . 



In Crotch's collection there is placed under the name Cleis lynx a specimen of the 

 species I have described above (antea, p. 158) as Coccinella albopicta. This specimen 

 is one from Chevrolat's collection, and is certainly (as I think) not a variety of C. lynx. 

 On comparing it with Mulsant' s description of C. mirifica I find such discrepancies 

 that I cannot accept the identification. I am therefore unacquainted with the true 

 C. mirifica, Muls. 



2. Cleis lynx. (Tab. IX. fig. 19.) 



Cleis lynx, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 210 l ; Monogr. Coccin. p. 149 2 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. 

 p. 142 3 . 



Hab. Mexico 123 , near the city (Hbge). 



3. Cleis concolor. 



Cleis concolor, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 142 l . 

 Hab. Mexico l , Chilpancingo in Guerrero 4600 feet (H. H. Smith). 



There is one specimen of a very obscure Coccinellid amongst Mr. H. H. Smith's 



