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kindly pointed out the error. The name of the species should be atra, 

 and not " aier.'" It is a very peculiar species, only doubtfully a member 

 of Cyc/o?iedii, but may remain there for the present. Although rejected 

 by Leng, because of doubt concerning its geographic habitat, there can be 

 but little question that it belongs to the fauna of this country, as there was 

 but iittle or no foreign material in the Levelte cabinet, whence it came. 

 The error in the name ''ater," just referred to, which, by tlie way, was not 

 discovered by Mr. Leng, reminds me of a still more flagrant lai)sus on p. 

 141 of my Revision, where I have imposed a name " postpuicius " upon 

 a harmless Scymnid ; it should of course ht post/) ictus. And this leads me 

 to notice a new high Latin rendition of the word fourteen, which Mr. 

 Leng (Jr. N. Y. Ent. Sjc , 1903, p. 206) inforiiis us should bs " quatro- 

 dechn,'' in striving to write th.e name quatuordecimgiittata. 



The true Cycloneda has as its type sanguinea, Linn. Such forms as 

 Gilardiiii, Muls., from Colombia and Central America, form a distinct 

 genus v/hich may take the name Spiloneda (n. gen.). 



Oil a, Csy. 



In Mexico there are several species of Olla still unnamed ; one of 

 these, from Vera Cruz, differing very radically from abdominalis, was 

 outlined as a variety of the latter by Mr. Gorham (Biol. VII, p. 172, pi. 9, 

 fig. 24). It differs in having two Urge elongate-oval subbasal and t^vo 

 large divaricately oblique elongate-oval median spots on each elytron. It 

 may take the name Gila Gorhami (n. sp.). Besides V-nigruin and Sallei, 

 the genus may also include, among the Mexican species, such forms as 

 Coccinella maculosa and quichensis, although it is impossible to definitely 

 decide this without actual observation. 



The name oculata, Fabr., for the black forms in this genus, is, I think, 

 clearly untenable. The statement that there is a rounded pale spot at 

 each side of the pronotum in oculaia, would seem to set the matter at rest, 

 and the Fabrician oculata must apply to some species in another geims, 

 probably Coelophora, with the assumption that the locality given by 

 Fabricius for oculata is erroneous ; this is a much more legitimate con- 

 clusion than to assume the description to be erroneous, as suggested by 

 Leng. The slender irregular pale area along the sides of the pronotum 

 in these black forms of Olla could never, by any stretch of the 

 imagination, be considered rounded, whereas the rounded form is very 

 common in Ccelophora. It may be said, also, that casual observation of 

 the series of these black forms in my collection must convince any 



