76 Journal New York Entomological Society, [voi. vii. 



occur here, differs from Hippodamia only in having the base of the 

 prothorax sinuate at the middle. Afiisos/icfa is represented within our 

 confines by bitriangularis Say (^^multiguttata Rand.), related to the 

 European ig-pi/tictata, and still more closely to strigata, but distinct 

 from either. Maa'oncemia (gen. nov.) has for its unique representa- 

 tive the Coccinella episcopalis of Kirby, assigned to NcBtnia by Mulsant. 

 JVcEfuia has for its type, and only species within the United States, the 

 Coccinella seriafa of Melsheimer (^■=Iitigiosa Muls. ). 



Parangemia, gen. nov. 

 The type of this genus is the Hippodamia viitigera, of Mannerheim, 

 assigned to N^icniia by Mulsant. The specimens in my cabinet may 

 be grouped in the two following closely allied species or perhaps sub- 

 species : — 



Form short and broadly suboval, the prothorax twice as wide as long and broadly 

 rounded at base ; elytra rather shining and distinctly punctate. Length 4.8— 

 5.2 mm.; width 2.9-3.0 mm. California vlttigera Mann. 



Form more elongate but broad and subparallel, larger, though similarly ornamented 

 with black, the prothorax much less than twice as wide as long and more strongly 

 rounded at base ; elytra strongly alutaceous and more finely and very much more 

 sparsely punctate. Length 5.2-6,4 mm.; width 2.9-3.4 mm. Colorado and 

 Arizona similis, .sp. nov. 



Megilla Muls. 

 The type assumed by Mulsant is the M. mac 11 lata, of De Geer 

 (Spec, p. 24), but this name was applied by its author to one of the 

 large South American forms, which are in all probability specifically 

 distinct from our farailar and very constant modification, and it is 

 therefore proper to apply the name fuscilabris to the latter. The ma- 

 terial before me indicates three species or subspecies as follows : — 



Head finely and feebly punctured ; surface lustre alutaceous ; pronotum narrowly re- 

 flexed at the sides 2 



Head strongly and closely punctured ; lustre much more shining, the pronotum more 

 broadly reflexed at the sides 3 



2 — Prothorax less than twice as wide as long. Length 4.7-6.2 mm.; width 2.7- 

 3.4 mm. Delaware, North Carolina, Iowa, Arizona and California (Yuma). 



luscilabris Muh. 



Prothorax twice as wide as long ; body larger and much more broadly oval. Length 

 5.2-7.2 mm.; width 3.0-4.0 mm. Texas (Brownsville) .. .htrenua, sp. nov. 



3 — Body in form and size nearly as in fuscilabris, the ground color of the type yel- 

 lowish, the discal tran.sverse spot of the elytra posteriorly angulate ; punctures 

 of the elytra fine and rather close. Length 5 7 mm.; width 2.9 mm. Hon- 

 duras meoialis, sp. nov. 



