180 coccinellim:. 



yellow, each elytron also with two yellow spots, the basal one of which is the larger. 

 The body beneath is pitchy with pale sutures, and the legs indeterminately pitchy, with 

 paler tibiae and tarsi. Four examples. 



Obs. This insect is labelled " Exochomus heirrichi " in the Salle collection, but I 

 have not found the description of such a species. 



8. Exochomus sallaei. 



Ater ; elytris coccineis, singulis macula subapicali rotunda nigra. Long. 3 millim. 



Hab. Mexico (Salle). 



Smooth and shining, the punctuation scarcely visible; the size and coloration 

 somewhat similar to that of E. contristatus, Muls., but, besides the two spots of the 

 elytra, the body is black. The extreme limb of the elytra is, as usual, blackish. One 

 example. 



9. Exochomus hogei. (Tab. x. fig. 11.) 



Ater, nitidus ; elytris coccineis, singulis punctis duobus parvulis discoidalibus, et uno communi apicali suturaque 

 in medio, nigris. Long. 4 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Villa Lerdo in Durango (Hoge). 



Smooth, shining, and with the elytra very convex for this genus. The margins are 

 scarcely, if at all, expanded, the limb very narrowly black. Of the elytral spots that 

 nearest the base is, in our single specimen, the smaller of the two, and is placed on 

 the scarcely perceptible callus ; the second is placed a little behind the middle ; the 

 apical spot is similar to that of the East-Indian E. urojpygialis. The body and legs 

 are black, only the tarsi are reddish. One example. 



PENTILIA. 



Pentilia, Mulsant, Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 502 (1850) ; Chapuis, Gen. Col. xii. p. 234. 



Three species only have at present been referred to this genus, which is very 

 unsatisfactorily characterized. It has the appearance of a small Chilocorus. 



1. Pentilia egena. 



Chilocorus egenus, Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 460 \ 



Pentilia egena, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, s^cur. p. 502 2 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 199 \ 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). — Beazil 2 , Rio Janeiro 3 , Bahia 3 . 



The males are greenish ; they have the head yellow and the angles of the thorax 

 broadly margined with the same colour. The female, of which we have received but 

 one example, is entirely black above. 



