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captures which appears to agree better with the type of this species in Crotch's collec- 

 tion than with any other, but it has no special relation with C. lynx. 



NEOCALVIA. 



Neocalvia, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 129 (1874). 



Calvia, Mulsant, Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 143 (pars) . j 



Neocalvia is the New- World exponent of the old genus Calvia. It has not hitherto 

 been recorded from the Northern continent. 



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1. Neocalvia duodecim-guttata. -- ^, ^ ^ ^ e , vv s ^ q ^ e x ; 



Coccinella 12-guttata, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii., App. p. 379 (1789) 1 (nee Poda). '' 



Neocalvia duodecim-guttata, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 129 2 . 



Coccinella cayennensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 4, p. 1659 3 . 



Calvia cajennensis, Muls. Spec. Trim, secur. p. 148 i ; Monogr. Coccin. p. 118 5 . 



Hab. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). — South Ameeica, Cayenne 12345 . 



Three specimens were obtained by Mr. Champion in Guatemala. They have the 

 white markings rather more diffuse than in typical representatives from Cayenne. 



2. Neocalvia areolata. (Tab. IX. fig. 20.) 



Convexa, subhemisphaerica, fere lsevis, pallide albo-flavescens ; prothorace vitta lata, elytris signatura reticu- 

 lata brunneis, areolas in singulis septem includente, duas basales, duas postmedianas, duas transversas 

 apicales, unam discoidalem subquadratam. Long. 6 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



The pattern of the elytra of this species is very elegant. The brown reticulate line 

 is thin, except where it crosses the suture below the basal areee. The ground-colour is 

 pale whitish-yellow, the pattern red-brown. The thoracic vitta is narrowly bordered 

 with darker brown, and the entire limb of the thorax and elytra is narrowly brown. In 

 one of the two specimens the apical transverse areolet is united with the large semi- 

 circular lateral one ; but in the other, which we figure, the two are quite separate. 

 The two large postmedian arese may be termed " common " to the two elytra. 



CYCLONEDA. 



Cycloneda, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 162 (1874). 



Daulis, Mulsant, Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 296 (nee Erichson, in "Wiegm. Archiv fur Naturg. viii. 

 1, p. 241). 



The characters upon which this genus is founded are, as Crotch himself has remarked, 

 not satisfactory. In the Munich Catalogue Cycloneda and the various divisions of Hfeda 

 proposed by Crotch are all again combined under Neda. By this method, however, 



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