228 COCCINELLID^E. 



The type of this species from Keiche's collection, now in that of the Cambridge 

 Museum, is before me, and examples from the above localities agree with it. It is 

 very near S. cinctus, Lee, and S. lecontii, Crotch, which Horn does not consider distinct. 



We figure a specimen from San Pedro. 



6. Scymnus apicalis. (Tab. XII. fig. 21.) 



Scymnus apicalis, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 987 1 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 271 2 . 



Eab. Mexico 1 2 , Chilpancingo and Amula in Guerrero, Cuernavaca in Morelos 

 (E. E. Smith), VentanasinDurangoand Acapulco (Edge) ; Guatemala, Quezaltenango, 

 Guatemala city (Champion). 



The distinguishing characters of this species, which is somewhat similar to the one 

 described as S. horni, are its rather larger size (length 2-2-J millim.), the wider extent 

 of the orange-red apex of the elytra and of the abdomen, of which only two segments 

 at the base are decidedly black, and the faint indications of rows among the punctures 

 at the base of the elytra near the suture, which may therefore be termed substriate at 

 that part. I have seen a few examples from Amula with blackish legs and with 

 blackish genitalia (although the abdomen is red), apparently females, the heads being, 

 however, obscurely red. 



Scymnus apicalis was described by Mulsant from specimens in Dejean's collection ; 

 and as the first quoted of these is from "•Mexico/' it will be better to exclude the 

 supposed South-American specimens. It does not appear to have been identified by 

 Horn. A quasi-type in Crotch's collection, with an H., and " Pennsyl." as locality, in 

 no way corresponds to the description and is quite valueless as a type. One from 

 Eeiche's collection is from Caracas, while three others with a label " Yucatan," but 

 which also bear the word " Caracas," are apparently not referable to Mulsant's species. 



I therefore propose that the present insect, which agrees fairly with the description, 

 and which we now figure, should be adopted to represent it. 



Obs. — Crotch places S. apicalis as following S. auritulus, both in the ' Revision ' and 

 in his collection : it is altogether a wider and more distinctly marked insect than that 

 species. About thirty examples are now before me. 



7. Scymnus bugabensis. 



Late orbicularis, niger, pedibus abdomineque obscure runs, dense griseo-pubescens ; elytris fortiter punctatis, 

 juxta suturam seriebus duo vel tres punctorum magis distinctis, apice concolore ; capite prothoraceque 

 creberrime minute punctatis, antennis etiam nigris. Long. 2 millim. 



Mas capite obscure rufo. 



Eab. Panama, Bugaba {Champion). 



A very distinct species of Scymnus, being broader than any yet noticed, with the 

 elytra more distinctly punctured, and the striolse approaching those of the genus 

 Sticholotis in distinctness. The head is red in some examples, black in the others ; 



