OF NATURAL HISTORY. (JT 1 



1 have specimens in my culU'i'tioii IVom riMuote parts of North 

 Aiiu'rica. Dr. Harris sent it to iin- IVoiii Ma.><sachusett.s, uikI I)r. 

 Melsheimcr from near Maryland. I have found it in the North 

 West Territory, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Mi-ssouri, Florida, nnd 

 varieties a and (i, in Mexico. The name is taken from .>I(I.h. i- 

 nier's Catalogue. 



2. C. DENTIPES Fabr. — Is common in Me.xiio, and I formerly 

 obtained an individual in the North West Territory. 



;]. C. CACTI Fabr. — This species occurs abundantly in Mi-.xifo ; 

 it certainly resembles very closely the »ti<jm(i [203] nob., so 

 common in this country, and the riiiij>nslni<i(a Miill., of Europe ; 

 but it is more than twice the size of either of those insects, and 

 may also be distinguished from the former, by the superior mag- 

 nitude of the rufous spot of which the form is transversely oval, 

 whilst that of the sfii/ma is orbicular. 



SCYMNUS Ilcrbst. (COCCINELLA F.) 



S. TKRMINATUS. — Black J elytra, at tip yellowish. 



Inhabits Louisiana. 



Body black, polished, punctured : head honey-yellow : antennas, 

 club not much dilated, with numerous short hairs : thora.v with 

 numerous short hairs : lateral margin honey-yellow : scutel acute 

 behind : elytra at tip yellowish : beneath piceous-black : pectus, 

 feet and venter behind, honey-yellow. 



Length about two-twenty-filths of an inch. 



]"'or this species 1 am indebted to 31 r. liarabino. 



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