264 SUPPLEMENT. 



One example only has been sent of this cnrious species, and I have therefore not 

 been able to examine the details of the antennae and palpi. The body beneath is 

 black ; the metasternum is rugose, like the elytra. 



In several respects this insect is not unlike some of the Neaporice ; but it is without 

 pubescence, and the sculpture is so peculiar that the systematic position of the species 

 is at present quite doubtful. 



SCYMNUS (p. 226). 

 7 (a). Scymnus verse-pacis. 



Corpus ferrugineum, capite prothoraceque albidis, hoc vitta lata mediana nigra ; elytris nigris nitidis, apice late 

 dilute ferrugineo. Long. 1*75 millim. 



llab. Guatemala, Panima and Tamahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 



The distinguishing characters of this Scymnus, in the section to which it apparently 

 belongs, are its perfectly smooth, shining surface (no pubescence being visible on 

 either of the four examples referred to it), the broad, sharply-defined black vitta of the 

 thorax, the head and sides of the latter being white, and the red body and legs ; the 

 metasternum and base of the hind body are darker. It is not unlike S. bugabensis, but 

 the punctuation is finer, and no sign of series is found here. From S. apicalis the same 

 differences, as well as the total absence of pubescence, the more distinctly marked 

 thorax, the red body, with the elytral epipleurse also red, and numerous recondite but 

 important characters differentiate S. verce-pacis. 



There are two examples from each locality: in one of those from Tamahu the 

 thoracic vitta is more extended, occupying the whole disc of the thorax, and being 

 twice as wide as the pale lateral portion ; possibly this example is a female, but it has 

 the head whitish-yellow. 



COCCIDULA (to follow the genus Scymnus, p. 235). 

 Coccidula, Kugelann, in Illiger's Verz. der Kafer Preuss. p. 421 (1T98). 



Coccidula consists of two well-known European, insects of oblong form, found in wet 

 places, among reeds, &c. ; a third species, from the United States, has been referred to 

 it by Leconte and Crotch, on the authority of a single specimen ; and a species from 

 China is placed under this generic name in the Munich Catalogue, but it very probably 

 is not congeneric. 



The species here recorded is also doubtfully placed in the genus. 



1. Coccidula (?) ferruginea. 



Oblonga, ferruginea, breviter ac parce pubescens, crebre punctata ; capite prothoraceque dilutioribus, minus 

 irregulariter subtilius punctatis. Long. 4 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Toxpam (Salle). 



