40 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Art. VIII. — A Description of a new Species of Coccinella found 



in New Zealand. 



By W. Colenso, F.R.S., F.L.S., etc. 

 [Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, \lth July, 1887.] 



Class Insecta. 



Order IV. COLEOPTERA. 



Tribe Clavipalpi. 



Section Trimera. 



Group Coccinellidse, Latreille. 



Genus Coccinella, Linn. 



C. nova-zealandue, sp. nov. 



Sub-hemispherical, moderately gibbous, 2$ lines long. Body, 

 head, and legs black ; elytra light vermillion, spotted with black. 

 Head (and prothorax) intensely black, glossy, sub-iridescent, 

 with two deltoid- shaped white spots between the eyes, and two- 

 minute ones below eyes at their inner angles ; maxillary palpi 

 terminal joint very large, broad, and flat ; labrum with a few 

 fine short ciliae-like hairs ; antenna: tips broadly cuneate, flattish. 

 Prothorax with a large pentangular (escutcheon-shape) white 

 spot on each anterior angle of pronotum. Elytra, margins 

 considerably dilated and of a brighter red, with 11 sub-orbicular 

 spots, disposed regularly in two rows longitudinally aud three 

 rows laterally, the upper spot on sutures near base over scutel- 

 lum being the largest, with a white patch at base above ; the four 

 central large and the six outer small ; their edges very irregular 

 and ragged ; a circular light-red spot in the middle of each 

 elytron, margin entire ; and two obscure longitudinal veins ;' 

 the whole finely powdered with excessively minute black specks, 

 which are more thick near the sutures. Hind-wings rather 

 large, dusky, mostly so about costal and sub-costal veins, with 

 an opaque' dull -reddish line on costal edge from base to near 

 second costal cell, where it forms a squarish-oblong blotch, or 

 kind of ptero-stigma ; the sub-median vein strong and clearly 

 marked. Meta-sternum white. Abdomen very finely and minutely 

 hairy, with a white spot beneath at each anterior angle ; tip of 

 anal portion hairy ; hairs patent. Legs, tarsi finely and closely 



hairy. 



Hah. Napier; forests interior of Forty-mile l.ush, Waipawa 

 County, 1870-85; (also earlier at the north. Bay of Islands, 

 etc. ;) but always singly and very rarely met with. Mr. 

 Hamilton has lately (1880) captured a single specimen. 



