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5. L. apiealis. Testaceous-yellow ; elytra black, with the apex testace- 

 ous. 1 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Endomychus fuscus ? Melsh. Catal. 



Testaceous-yellow, glossy : head and thorax scarcely or very indistinctly 

 punctulate, the former tinted with rufous, the latter with longitudinal, an- 

 teriorly abbreviated basal lines: scutellum black: elytra black, with the apex 

 indeterminately testaceous ; obscurely punctulate : beneath and antennae 

 color of the thorax : feet testaceous, sometimes colored like the abdomen. 



Var. a. Entirely pale testaceous. Endomychus pallidus, Melsh. MS. 

 Doubtless immature specimens. 



Coecinellidce Leach. 

 Coccinella, Linne. 



1. C. seriata. Pale yellow above ; head, disk of the thorax, suture and 

 three submarginal spots of the elytra, beneath and femora, black ; tibia? 

 and tarsi testaceous. 1\ 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Coccinella suluralis, Melsh. Catal. 



Ovate : head deep black, immaculate ; labrum, palpi and antennas, testa- 

 ceous, the latter with the clava dusky : thorax pale yellow, tinged with 

 rosaceous ; disk and middle of the base, black : elytra color of the thorax, 

 each with a series of three large, irregular, submarginal black spots, the 

 first of which is hatchet-shaped, and placed on the humerus ; the second 

 spot, which is transverse-oval ( is joined to the first by a short neck, and to 

 the third by a short narrow line ; the third spot is longitudinal-oval ; su- 

 ture with a bisinuate black vitta, terminating a little before the apex, where 

 it is joined to the tip of the posterior spot : beneath and femora, black ; 

 tibiae and tarsi testaceous, the former with the apical half dusky ; abdo- 

 mon with the lateral margins rosaceous. Allied to tibialis and parnelkesis, 

 Say. 



2. B. concinnata. Whitish above; head and thorax maculate with black ; 

 disk of elytra fuscous ; beneath blackish ; feet yellowish. 2\ 1. long. 

 Pennsylvania. 



Coccinella concinnata, Melsh. MS. 



Head white, tinged with yellowish, with two longitudinal black lines, in- 

 terrupted in the middle by the prevailing color ; eyes black; mouth and palpi 

 yellowish, the latter with the tip dusky ; antennae testaceous : thorax color 

 of the head, densely and indistinctly punctulate, and with about seven large 

 spots and two geminate punctures, black ; spot on each of the lateral sub- 

 margins suboval, one on each side of the middle at base sublunate, between 

 which and the lateral spot is placed the double puncture or dot; two anterior 

 dorsal spots oblique, oval : posterior dorsal spot small, oval, and posted 

 with the anterior ones triangularly : scutellum blackish : elytra whitish, 

 stronger tinted with yellowish than the thorax, with the disk brown, tinted 

 with reddish, and very irregular in its outline, containing in its middle each 

 side and near the suture a pale yellowish spot ; densely and more distinctly 

 punctulate than the thorax : beneath blackish, with the abdomen strongly 

 tinted with reddish ; feet yellowish-rufous. 



Var. a. Head black, with three longitudinal white lines ; thorax white, with 

 an irregular black fascia: two short, longitudinal white lines in the middle at 



