172 COCCINELLID^. 



6. Cycloneda abdominalis. (Tab. IX. figg. 22-24.) 



Coccinella abdominalis, Say, Joum. Acad. Phil. iv. p. 95 (1824) \ 

 Baulis abdominalis, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 316 \ 

 Cycloneda abdominalis, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 163 8 . 

 Harmonia V -nigrum, Muls. Monogr. Coccin. p. 64 4 . 

 Coccinella V-nigrum, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 109 5 . 



Edb. Noeth Amekica \ United States 2 3 .— Mexico 2 3 , Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas, 

 Villa Lerdo and Ventanas in Durango, Chilpancingo, Mexico city, Cordova, Las Vigas 

 (Edge), Monclova in Coahuila, Guajuco in Nuevo Leon, Valle del Maiz (Br. Palmer), 

 Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), Puebla, Etla, Guanajuato, Orizaba, Oaxaca 45 (SallS), 

 Misantla (E. E. Smith), Temax in N. Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemala, near the city 

 (Champion); Nicaragua (SallS). 



Var. ? Elytris singulis maculis duabus magnis basalibus et duabus majoribus medianis transversim conjunctis, 

 nigris. (Fig. 24.) 



Edb. Mexico, Vera Cruz (SallS). 



From an inspection of the types of Earmonia V-nigrum in Salle's collection there is 

 no doubt of the correctness of the synonymy given above. 



C. abdominalis is a very abundant insect, but it becomes rarer below lat. 15°. There 

 is only a single specimen from Nicaragua in Salle's collection. 



The specimens figured are — one of the typical form from Mexico city (fig. 22); one 

 of a pretty variety (fig. 23) which occurred rather commonly at Temax in Yucatan ; 

 and one (fig. 24) from Vera Cruz, which is the only one I have seen thus marked. 



7. Cycloneda oculata. 



Coccinella oculata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. i. 1, p. 287 (1792) \ 

 Cycloneda oculata, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 166 2 . 

 Coccinella binotata, Say, Journ. Acad. Phil. v. p. 302 (1826) 3 . 

 Daulis binotata, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 322 4 . 



Eab. North America 1 4 , United States 2 3 , Texas. — Mexico, Monclova in Coahuila 

 (Dr. Palmer), Guanajuato (SallS), Teapa in Tabasco (E. E. Smith). 



Crotch seems latterly to have regarded this insect as the black form of C. abdominalis ; 

 it is so placed in his " Bevision of the Coccinellidse of the United States," Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc. iv. p. 372 (April 1873). In his general " Revision," however, he remarks 2 , " I 

 do not know its pale form " ; and, considering the blood-red colour of the elytral spot 

 and the total absence of intermediate varieties, as well as the fact that among the large 

 series of C. abdominalis we have received there is not one specimen varying in this 

 direction, I do not think they can be so united. 



Crotch 2 refers this insect to the C. oculata of Fabricius ; it ought to be observed, 

 however, that Fabricius's words, "Thorax ater, nitidus, utrinque macula magna, ro- 



