THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 40 L 



Ad alia, Miils. 



In my opinion ophthalmica, ovipennis, annectaiis and tra?isversalis 

 are valid species ; ornatella might be regarded as a subspecies of 

 iransversalis, but no other close aUiance can be discerned. The coarse 

 and very conspicuous punctures of the latter, as well as ornatella, 

 distinguish them at once from a?inectans, without noting peculiarites of 

 ornamentation. I do not think that we have the true Arctica. The 

 following is an interesting addition : 



A. coloradensis, n. sp. — Form rather more narrowly oval than in 

 a?inectans, convex, highly polished, finely and moderately punctate, pale 

 brownish-red ; head black, with a pale spot next each eye ; pronotum 

 solidly black, without trace of median basal pale spots, the very fine apical 

 pale margin sometimes obliterated, the sides broadly pale, without black 

 spot, being like those oi bipunctata, except that the oblique sides of the 

 black area are irregular, having a feeble oblique sinus at the middle ; 

 elytra wholly pale, excepting a feebly oblique transverse spot at middle, 

 half as far from suture as side margin, and a transversely duplex sub- 

 apical spot on each. Length, 3.9-4.6 mm.; width, 2.75-3.3 mm. Colorado 

 (Boulder Co.). 



Represented by three specimens holding together very well ; in one 

 of them there is an obtuse lateral spur from the black pronotal area just 

 behind the middle, but it is of a piceous colour, adventitious and not 

 properly homologous with the spur in annectans and allied forms. 



Coccinella, Linn. 

 Li this genus Mr. Leng has succeeded in augmenting the confusion 

 and uncertainty, rather than contributing anything to the sum of human 

 knowledge. A very cursory comparison, especially as to thoracic orna- 

 mentation, of the American examples referred by Crotch to trifasciata 

 and typical native examples of the latter, would have shown him that 

 specific identity is out of the question, and that the wd^mQ perplex a, Muls., 

 that I employed, and which he so unceremoniously rejects, is the only 

 proper one to give the American species. Furthermore, there was no 

 need to go back to the formerly assumed equality of transversogicttata 

 and ^-notata. A Siberian examph of the former before me shows that 

 the latter is a different species, larger, more convex and more elongate- 

 oval, as well as somewJiat differently marked, and suturalis, which he 

 transforms into a variety, though sufficiently remarkable to bear the 

 burden of italics, is in no way closely related to any other species, being 



