194 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



yellow, the black part forming a large three-lobed spot ; the middle lobe 

 being the longest and truncated, the lateral ones shorter and rounded ; 

 elytra tawny-rufous, paler and almost yellow at the base and sides, where 

 there is a black band common to both elytra not reaching the lateral 

 margin, which anteriorly has a double sinus so as to form three triangular 

 lobes or points in the band ; towards the apex of each elytrum is another 

 irregular black band, which reaches neither the suture nor the margin. 



315. Coccinella incarnata Kirby.- — Plate vii, fig. 7. Length of 

 body 2 lines. A' single specimen taken in Lat. 65 . 



[232.] Body black. Mouth and its organs and antennae reddish ; 

 prothorax flesh-coloured with two large subquadrangular black spots, 

 separated by a narrow flesh-coloured stripe, which occupy almost all the 

 disk : elytra flesh-coloured, taken together with eleven roundish rather 

 large black spots, three of which are common to both elytra, viz. 3, 4, 3, 

 1, the common spot at the apex is transverse ; legs black with the base of 

 the thighs and tibiae, tarsi, sides of the abdomen, and anus testaceous. 



This species seems to come near C. borealis of Thunberg, but it differs 

 in colour and the number and disposition of the spots. 



FAMILY PIMELIADiE. 



316. Pimelia alternata Kirby. — Plate v, fig. 9. Length of body 

 6^ lines. A single specimen taken at Carlton-house, Lat. 53 , in April. 



[233.] Body dull-black, oblong, naked. Head minutely punctured ; 

 antennae shorter than the prothorax ; prothorax widest in the middle, 

 subquadrangular with the sides rounded, minutely but not very thickly 

 punctured, with some slight impressions in the disk : scutellum short, 

 wide, rounded at the apex ; elytra with six elevated granulated lines 

 alternately more pronounced, besides the suture and marginal one sep- 

 arating the epipleura, which meet just above the apex ; epipleura granu- 

 lated : posterior legs much longer than the four anterior. 



Mr. Say says of his P. rotunda that it was the first of that genus found 

 on the New Continent ; that above described furnishes therefore a valu- 

 able addition to the American insect Fauna. Africa appears to be the 

 metropolis of the genus, though several species have been found in 

 Russian Tartary. 



