Feb., 1847.] 181 



Oval, deep black, shining, pubescent: head black, with an obscure, 

 transverse, impressed line below the front labrura month and antennae, 

 piceous : thorax finely punctured, with the anterior edge piceous : scutel- 

 lum distinct : elytra comparatively strongly punctured, long somewhat di- 

 lated before the middle, each with a small orbicular red sp>t near the mid- 

 dle ; humeral tubercles small, distinct : beneath and feet blackish, the latter 

 rather piceous. 



3. S. ftavifrons. Black ; head and a large spot behind the middle of each 

 elytrum, yellowish ; tibiae and tarsi, testaceous. 1. long. Pennsylvania. 



Coceinella ftavifrons, Melsh. MS. 



Subhemispheric, black, shining, pubescent, punctulate : head and an- 

 tennae, yellowish ; eyes black : thorax minutely punctured, with the ante- 

 rior angles obsoletely testaceous : scutellum minute : elytra more distinctly 

 punctulate than the thorax, each with a large orbicular yellowish spot be- 

 hind the middle, and nearer to the suture than the lateral edge : beneath 

 black : tibiae and tarsi, testaceous ; femora often dusky, sometimes testa- 

 ceous. 



[Note. Dr. Melsheimer's " Descriptions of new North 

 American Coleoptera" have heen in course of publication in 

 these Proceedings since April, 1844. In Vol. II, No. 2, will 

 be found the commencement of this valuable and elaborate 

 paper. The additional portions have appeared at such inter- 

 vals in succeeding numbers, as the limits to which the Society 

 is in some measure obliged to restrict its publications, and 

 the claims of other contributors to the pages of the Proceed- 

 ings would justify. These descriptions, together numbering 

 about six hundred, are now concluded. The great care and 

 labour bestowed upon them by the author, afford the best 

 evidence of their correctness, and consequently of their value 

 to those interested in this particular order of Insects.] 



