SCYMNUS.— VEDALTA. 235 



22. Scymnus pilatii. 



Scymnus Pilatii, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 990 ' j Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 272 \ 

 Hab. Mexico, Yucatan x 2 . 



23. Scymnus thelys. 



Scymnus thelys, Muls. Opusc. Entom. iii. p. 155 (1853) z ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 272 \ 

 Hab. Mexico, Yucatan 1 2 . 



24. Scymnus bilucernarius. 



Scymnus bilucernarius, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 997 1 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 272 * 

 Hab. Mexico, Yucatan 1 2 . 



25. Scymnus atomus. 



Scymnus atomus, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 998 x ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 273 2 . 

 Hab. Mexico, Yucatan 1 2 . 



VEDALIA. 



Vedalia, Mulsant, Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 905 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 281. 



The type of Vedalia is the Mexican insect recorded below, much confusion appearing 

 to have arisen by Crotch having associated Vedalia sieboldi with species from India 

 and elsewhere, which Mulsant placed, and as I think properly enough, in Bodolia. 

 Again, the characters of Vedalia, as given by Mulsant, are very unsatisfactory and even 

 illusory : that the tibiae are rounded or angular on their exterior margin seems to me 

 an error of description. They are very flat, and shut partly into grooves of the femora ; 

 but they are neither emarginate nor angular, and the association of these genera with 

 the Exoplectrides is quite erroneous. Vedalia, in fact, approaches nearest to Novius, 

 a Palsearctic genus occurring in Asia and Japan. The claws are bifid. The coxal 

 fossettes are well marked, nearly reaching the end of the segment, but not complete. 



l. Vedalia sieboldi. (Tab. XII. fig. 24.) 



Vedalia Sieboldi, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, se'cur. p. 905 1 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 281 (Rodolia) 2 . 

 Ortalia lama, Salle, in litt. 

 Hab. Mexico 1 2 , Orizaba, Guanajuato, Yolotepec (Salle). 



The examples from Guanajuato and Orizaba differ slightly from those from Yolotepec 

 in having the whole metasternum, with the epimera, and even the trochanters and 

 coxae, black, and the first-named have the black mark near the scutellum less developed. 

 Specimens in the Cambridge collection, one of which is typical, being the example 

 from Westwood, have the breast infuscate. The antennae are scarcely longer than the 

 palpi, red, with an elongate, three-jointed club. The abdomen has six segments in the 

 female (?), five segments only clearly visible in the male (?). The elytral epipleurae are 



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