294 Mr. Mar sham's Description of Notoclea. 



Caput atrum, ore piceo. Antenna: nigra?, basi rubrae. Thorax 

 ater, punctatus, nitidus. Elytra atra, niticla, punctato- 

 striata, linea rubra prope marginem et ali& abbreviate ad 

 suturam postice positA. Ad basin maculae duae rubrae, qua- 

 rum una longa lineolae instar prope scutellum est, et altera 

 minor subtrigona juxta lineam exteriorem. Corpus subtus 

 atrum, nitidum. Pedes nigri, femoribus piceis. 



20. Notoclea octomaculata. 

 Not. rubra, coleoptris maculis octo difformibus atris. 



Tab. XXV. Fig. 10. 

 Long. Corp. 4 lin. Lat. 3 lin. 

 Habitat in Nov& Hollandia. In Mus. Bom. Milne. 

 Antenna atque oculi atri. Caput rubrum. Thorax ruber, ma- 

 culis tribus atris, quarum media triloba est, et duae laterales 

 reniformes. Scutellum atrum. Elytra rubra, sub lente ob- 

 soletius punctato-striata. In utroque maculae quatuor atrae, 

 quarum duae minores sub-reniformes ad basin, altera ad me- 

 dium arcuata, et quarta ad apicem linearis longitudinaliter 

 posita. Corpus subtus nitidum. Sternum rubrum. Abdo- 

 men atrum, marginibus rubris. PeUes atri. 



Since the preceding Monograph was read to the Linnean So- 

 ciety, I have received M. Latreille's Genera Crustaceorum et In- 

 sector urn, printed at Paris in 1807 ; and 1 find that the genus Noto- 

 clea was known to that celebrated entomologist. It forms the 

 first family of his 328th genus, Chrysomela, under the name of 

 Coccinelloides, to which he gives the following character: "Cor- 

 pus sub-hemisph<£ricum ; palpi maxillares articulo ultimo obtrigono. 



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