A GENERIC SYNOPSIS OF THE COCCINELLID LARVAE 

 IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, WITH A 

 DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF HYPERASPIS BINO- 

 TATA SAY. 



By Adam Boving, 



Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 



INTRODUCTION. 



This paper is a contribution from the Branch of Forest Insects pre- 

 pared under an arrangement between Dr. A. D. Hopkins, in charge of 

 Forest Insects, and Dr. A. L. Quaintance, in charge of Deciduous Fruit 

 Insects of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, to supplement a biological paper by F. L. Simanton, 

 Entomological Assistant, Deciduous Fruit Insects, entitled Hyperas- 

 pis binotata, A Predatory Enemy of the Terrapin Scale. ^ 



In connection with the author's investigations of Coleopterous 

 larvae affecting forest and shade trees, he has been glad of an oppor- 

 tunity to study in details the morphology of the larva of Hyperaspis 

 binotata Say, and to work out a synopsis of the larvae of the Coccinel- 

 lid genera, represented in the United States National Museum. The 

 systematic notes of the present paper are, however, only intended as 

 an outUne for further studies and as a small contribution in the dis- 

 cussion about the natural arrangement of the genera of this difficult 

 group. The student of the family must rely upon earher papers, 

 among the most useful of which are L. Ganglbauer's critical abstract 

 in his Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa (vol. 3, 1899), and especially the 

 admirable paper of George Dimmock: Algunas CoccineUidae de Cuba 

 in Primer informe anual de la Estacion Central Agronomica de Cuba 

 (1906). As the present synopsis is based on the morphological study 

 of the larva of Hyperaspis hinotata, the description of this larva has 

 been placed first. 



» Joum. Agric. Res., Dept. Agric, Wash., D. C, vol. 6, 1916, pp. 197-203, with two plates. 



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