COCCINEJLLID-dS. 



Fisr. 



is sixteen-spotted, with three additional rows of dnrk s[)ots 

 on the abdomen. The body is broad and flat, with a row of 

 three spines on each side of the abdomen, and is .40 of an 

 inch long. 



In Chilocorus the margin of the elytra is dilated, and the 

 lunate prothorax is rounded behind. C. bivulneruhts Mulsant 

 (Fig. 513) is black, with two yellow spots. 



The genus Scymnus is hemispherical, pubescent, with short, 

 abruptly clavate antenme. I have received from 

 Dr. H. Shinier the larva and adult of Scymnus- cer- 

 rimlis Mills, which he found in the holes of insects 

 boring in the Prickly-ash. The body is snbcylin- 

 drical, pale whitish, much longer and slenderer and 

 narrower than in Coccinella, with a small black round head 

 legs are long and slender, more so than in Coccinella. 



rings are rather convex, not tuberculated above, 

 though provided with a few hairs. It is .12 of an inch 

 long. The beetle is reddish brown, with very <lark 

 p russ i an i)i ue elytra, and is .10 of an inch long. 

 Epilachna boreali's Thunberg (Fig. 514) is yellowish, with 

 seven large black patches on each elytron. "The larva', 

 according to Osten Sacken, are common on the leaves of the 

 pumpkin. It is yellow, with long, brown, branched spines. 

 arranged in rows of six on each segment, except the first tho- 

 racic segment, which has only four. The pupa instead of 

 spines has short bristles, especially on the thorax." 



the 

 The 



Fig. 514. 



Fig. 515. 

 The Pea Weevil (enlarged). 



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