AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 369 



connected with the anterior margin and a round dot on either side white- 

 elytra clearly and rather coarsely punctate, with a scutellar spot and six 

 others (as in Hippodamia) variously united or absent. L. *19 inch. 



Nova Scotia. (Leconte.) 



ANISOSTICTA, Chev. 



Mesoeoxal line visible, claws simple, thorax sinuate but not mar- 

 gined at base, elytra punctate, not alutaceous. 



A. Strigata. (Thunb.) Ins. Suec. ix.,113; bitriangularis. Say; multiguttata, 

 Rand. Bost. J. — Ovate, black, legs, antennae, sides of abdomen and last segment 

 yellow; thorax and elytra yellow, evidently punctate; thorax with two ob- 

 triangular spots (the external corner often isolated as a dot) ; elytra each with 

 eight spots and a common bilobed scutellar spot black (the two pairs near the 

 suture are often confluent, and then the external row forms a sinuous baud. 

 L. -13 inch. 



Canada, Vancouver, Illinois. 



A. episcopalis, (Kirby) Faun. B. A., p. 228, 309.— Elongate, parallel, 

 bright yellow, body black; head black behind and with two black vittae on the 

 point; thorax rounded behind, sinuate before the posterior angles, rather 

 finely punctate, with a large 3-lobed black mark on either side the median 

 line; elytra more strongly punctate, suture narrowly and a discoidal vitta 

 more broadly black (neither of them reaching the apex). L. "15 inch. 



Canada, (Ulke.) Kansas, (Leconte.) 



A. seriata, (Mels.) Pr. Acad, iii., 177; litigiosa, (Muls.) Trim., p. 31. 1.— 

 Very like the common M. maculata, and similarly colored; the head is, how- 

 ever, black and without the triangular frontal mark; the suture has three, com- 

 mon spots, one elongate oval, sub-seutellar, one below the middle and one 

 sub-apical, both rounded; the eight dorsal spots are confluent externally, 

 which is not the ease in Magilla. L. - 20 inch. 

 3Iiddle and Southern States. 



COCCIXELEA, Linn. 



Metasternum margined in front, posterior tibiae grooved, meta-coxal 

 line angulate externally. 



A. — Mesostemum emaryinate in front, sides of thorax brocuVy 

 reflexed. 



C affiiiis. Band. Bost. J. ii., 50, 27; venusta, Mels. Pr. Acad, iii., 178; notu- 

 lata, (Muls.) Trim., p. 83, 6. — Broadly ovate, black, head with the antennae and 

 a narrow band round the eyes red; thorax and elytra alutaceous, equally 

 (closely and rather finely) punctate, together with their epipleurse red with 

 black marks; beneath black, meso- and meta-epimera white. L. "23 inch. 



Lake Superior, Middle and Southern States, Yucatan. 



Thorax normally with two approximated round dots in front of two 

 converging elongate basal dashes black, or black with the anterior an- 

 gles yellow, eltrya each with two sub-basal and two medial spots black 



