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base ; beneath and femora black ; tibiae and tarsi pale testaceous. Coccin- 

 ella pini, Melsh. MS. 



3. C. venusta. Red above ; thorax with four, and elytra with ten spots, 

 black ; beneath aud feet, black. 3|- 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Coccinella venusta, Melsh. Catal. 



Hemispheric, punctulate, above dull red; head distinctly punctured, 

 black, with the orbits and a transverse frontal line, dull red ; labrum piceous, 

 edged with dull red ; antennae testaceous, with the tip dusky : thorax with 

 four very oblique black spots, of which the two basal ones are large, clavate 

 or sublanceolate, and united at their base ; dorsal spots small, ovate : scu- 

 tellum black, triangular : elytra more obviously punctulate than the thorax 

 each with three submarginal, and two subsutural, large black spots, one of 

 the latter resembles an inverted comma; suture black from a little behind 

 the middle to near the apex, where it is dilated and becomes confluent with 

 the terminal submarginal spot ; pleurae and epipleurae, testaceous yellow ; 

 pectus and abdomen, black ; feet similarly colored. 



4. C. modesta. Black ; elytra pale fulvous, each with six black dots ; 

 thorax with the lateral and anterior margins and two oblique, abbreviated 

 lines, white ; head with a white frontal fascia. 2f 1. long. Pennsylvania- 

 Oblong : head black, with a broad, anteriorly tridentate, white frontal 



fascia ; antennae and palpi dull testaceous, with the tips black or dusky : 

 thorax deep black, and like the head shining, the anterior and lateral mar- 

 gins narrowly white ; a short, oblique line each side of the middle similarly 

 colored : scutellum black : elytra fulvous, each with six black dots, placed 



I, 2, 2, 1, of which the posterior two are rather larger than the others : be- 

 neath and feet, black ; postpectus each side at tip and base with a dull 

 white spot. 



Brachiacantha, Chevr. 



1. B. ^-punctata. Deep black : elytra with four fulvous spots ; tibiae and 

 tarsi dull testaceous. If 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Coccinella 4-punctata, Melsh. Catal. 



Deep black, shining, finely and densely punctured : head immaculate; an- 

 tennae dull testaceous : thorax immaculate; anterior angles obscurely pice- 

 ous : scutellum triangular : elytra, each with a subrotund spot at base on 

 the inner angle, and another similarly shaped and sized one a little before 

 the apex, and nearer to it than to the suture, fulvous : beneath and femora, 

 black ; knees, tibiae and tarsi, dull or dusky testaceous ; prickle of the an- 

 terior tibiae robust, prominent. 



2. B. fulvopustulata. Deep black above ; front, lateral margins of the 

 thorax, and four spots on each elytrum, fulvous; tibiae and tarsi, testaceous. 



I I. long. Pennsylvania. 



Deep black, shining, densely and very minutely punctured : head with a 

 jarge yellowish or fulvous frontal spot ; labrum and antennae, testaceous : 

 thorax with a large whitish spot on each of the lateral margins, contracted 

 on the posterior angles : elytra, each with four pale fulvous spots, placed 

 1, 2, 1 ; anterior spot occupies the inner basal angle; posterior one is 

 placed a little before the apex, nearly equidistant from the suture and 

 lateral edge : beneath and femora, dull ferruginous ; tibiae, tarsi, and 



