THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. l3l 



FAMILY COCCINELL1D.E. 



309. Coccinella EPISCOPALIS Kirby. — Plate v, fig. 4. Length of 

 body 2 lines. Taken in the journey from New York to Cumberland- 

 house. 



[229.] Body narrow, nearly linear, having at first sight the aspect of 

 a Haltica, underneath black. Head black with three oblong pale yellow 

 spots, two adjoining the eyes on their inner side, and one placed back- 

 wards in the vertex ; mouth, antennae, and palpi rufous ; prothorax and 

 both elytra taken together, pale yellow with two black stripes, common to 

 both, resembling a bishop's crosier, the crook being on the thorax and 

 the stalk on the elytra ; suture of the latter black except at the tip ; legs 

 pale testaceous ; anus, sides of the abdomen, and tips of the ventral 

 segment, except the basal one. pale. 



[Belongs to JVcemia Mills.] 



310. Coccinella tredecim-punctata Linn. — Length of body 3 

 lines. Several specimens taken in Lat. 54 . 



Body oblong, black, lightly and minutely punctured ; underneath 

 slightly downy. Mouth and its organs pale rufous ; nose white, whiteness 

 with a posterior central lobe ; antennae rufous ; prothorax white with a 

 large discoidal spot foiling short of the anterior margin, where it is trun- 

 cated ; sides lobed, besides which there is a black dot on each side 

 connected with the above spot ; elytra reddish-yellow with six largish 

 black dots, namely 1,2, 2, 1. and one at the scutellum common to both 

 elytra ; the first marginal dot is ovate, the rest approaching to round ; the 

 tibiae and tarsi are testaceous ; there are two transverse white spots on 

 each side the breast, between the four posterior legs ; and four triangular 

 pale ones on each side the abdomen. 



Variety B. Nose rufous, with a parallegramniscal white spot between 

 the antennae. 



[Belongs to Hippodamia Muls. ; very common in Canada.] 



311. Coccinella tridens Kirby. — Length of body 2)^ lines. Two 

 specimens taken in the Expedition. 



[230.] Body rather oblong, very minutely punctured ; black under 

 neath, with two distant white spots on the breast, and three contiguous 

 ones on each side of the abdomen. Head black with a transverse white 

 band or trident between the eyes, tricuspidate both anteriorly and 



