SCYMNUS. 227 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba, David, Volcan de Chiriqui, Pena Blanca {Champion). — 

 Venezuela, Caracas 1 2 . 



The head, thorax, legs, and apical half of the abdomen are chestnut-red ; the elytra 

 black, not pubescent, impressed with minute, but distinct, and not very close punctures. 

 In one example from the Volcan de Chiriqui the scutellum is red. The insect has 

 very much the appearance of a Cryptognatha found at David, but from which its more 

 oblong form and longer thorax will serve to distinguish it. I have seen an insect 

 which appears to belong to this species named " S. volgus." 



The example from Caracas in the late Mr. Crotch's collection, from that of Eeiche, 

 is not a true Scymnus. There is therefore some doubt about the identification. 



Subgenus Pullus, Mulsant. 

 Coxal fossettes complete, forming a semicircle, the external side abutting on the 

 epimera. 



4. Scymnus ferrugineus. 



Breviter ovatus, ferrugineus, pubescens, minute perobsolete punctatus, prothorace elytris angustiore. Long. 

 2 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, La Tinta in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, San Miguel in the 

 Pearl Islands (Champion). 



Var. meso- et metasterno nigricantibus. 



Hab. Mexico, Chilpancingo in Guerrero (II. H Smith). 



Broadly ovate, of similar form to S. apicalis, Muls., but rather smaller, wholly 

 ferruginous, with a grey, rather close pubescence. The sculpture of the elytra exhibits 

 no trace of sulcation or of striation, but is very finely and closely punctate. The eyes 

 are rather strongly facetted. Of the wholly yellow Scymni known to me, this is the 

 largest and broadest ; the European S. abietis is a more oblong and less convex insect. 

 The specimen from Chilpancingo, which has the breast blackish, may possibly represent 

 a distinct species. It appears to me to belong to the same section as S. apicalis. 



5. Scymnus loewi. (Tab. XII. fig. 20.) 



Scymnus Loewii, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 980 l ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 271*. 

 Scymnus cinctus, Lee. Proc. Acad. Phil. vi. p. 137 3 . 

 Scymnus Lecontii, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 264 4 . 



Hab. North America, New Orleans 3 , Texas, California.— Mexico 1 2 , Saltillo and 

 San Pedro in Coahuila (Dr. Palmer), Ciudad in Durango, Aguas Calientes city, 

 Jalapa, Mexico city (Edge), Omilteme and Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 

 Guanaiuato (Salle) ; Guatemala, Zapote, Capetillo, Guatemala city (Champion). 



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