180 [Feb., 1847. 



The elytral spots of this species are sometimes deep scarlet, and the tip of 

 the clypeus dusky. It is the biguttata of Melsh. MS. 



4. H. fimbriolata. Punctulate, black; front, exterior margins of the thorax 

 and elytra, fulvous: anterior feet dusky testaceous; beneath, and intermediate 

 and posterior feet blackish or dusky piceous. 1^ 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Coccinella fimbriolata, Melsh. Catal. 



Var. a. Thorax immaculate. Coccinella lateralis, Melsh. Catal. 

 Exochomus, Redtenbacher. 



E. praitexiatus. Black ; head, lateral margins of the thorax and elytra, 

 two basal spots and a common central one of the latter, fulvous : feet tes- 

 taceous-yellow. 1J 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Coccinella prcetextata, Melsh. Catal. 



Black, densely punctulate, shining : head fulvous or yellowish, with the 

 clypeus at tip slightly emarginate and elevated : mouth sparsely whitish 

 pilose ; antennae color of the head ; eyes blackish : thorax with the lateral 

 margins broadly fulvous : scutellum very small, hardly apparent : elytra 

 with the inner basal angles triangularly, and the lateral margins broadly, 

 fulvous, the latter with the lateral margins similarly colored, and united to 

 a large common central spot by a narrow fascia, spot and fascia color of the 

 lateral margins : beneath blackish ; feet color of the head. The labrum is 

 slightly produced. 



Var. a. Head and thorax uniform black ; femora blackish ; tibiae and 

 tarsi dull dusky testaceous. Coccinellce fimbria, J. Melsh. MS. 



Chilocorus, Leach. 



C. verrucatus. Above and feet black; elytra with a common and two 

 basal spots, and beneath, red. 3|- 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Coccinella verrucata, Enoch MS. 



" trimaculata, Melsh. Catal. 



" tripustulata, De Geer, Ins. v, 393, 2 ? 



Black above, shining, impunctured : head black, immaculate ; antennae 

 rufo-testaceous : thorax with the anterior angles and edge, obscurely rufous; 

 elytra each with an oblong basal spot, and suture a little behind the middle 

 with a common linear one, cinnabar-red: feet blackish; beneath light 

 scarlet-red : wings fuliginous. This may prove to be a variety, but no1 

 type, of tripustulata, De Geer. 



Scvmnds, Kugelann. 



1. S. collaris. Black ; head, anterior and lateral margins of the thorax. 

 and feet rufous. 1. long, Pennsylvania. 



Coccinella thoracica, Melsh. Catal. 



Subhemispheric, black, punctulate, pubescent : head and thorax, rufous, 

 the latter with a semiorbicular black basal spot in front of the scutellum, 

 the latter very small : elytra with the apical margin narrowly and obsoletely 

 testaceous : beneath black, with the tip of the abdomen testaceous ; ante- 

 pectus, antenna and feet, rufous ; hind femora at base dusky. Size, form 

 and markings entirely of Coccinella parvula, Fabr., of which it may be a 

 local variety. 



2. S. punctatus. Black, distinctly punctured ; elytra each with a red 

 spot. $ 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



