June 1899] CaSEV : On AFRICAN COCCINELLID/E. 163 



Sufiiralis Ws. (Ann. Belg., March i8g5, p. 132), described from 

 Ohio, ot which the Californian occide?iialis Horn, is said by Weise to 

 be a synonym, is not before me at present and is therefore omitted. 



APPENDIX. 

 I. 



List of Coccinelhdc'e taken in equatorial and southern Africa by 

 Messrs. Cook and Currie, and by the author, while a member of the 

 Transit of A'enus expedition to the Cape of Good Hope, in 1882. 



Lioadalia flavomaculata DeG. — Wellington, near Cape Town. 



Isora anceps iMitls. — Wellinglon. 



Stictoleis 22-maculata Fabr. — Liberia (Mt. Coffee). The black spots coalesce 

 in some individuals. 



CEnopia cinctella Muh. — Cape Town. 



Verania comma Tliunb. — Wellington. 



Cydonia 4-lineata AIuls. — Wellington. The specimens are in three varieties. 

 First : the median vitta of the elytra is entire, with a finer external arcuate 

 vitta joining the principal vitta near the base and apex — the normal form, 

 which is rare. Second : the principal vitta is abruptly abbreviated at apical 

 fourth, and, third : the principal vitta extends only to basal third or fourth. 

 Both of the last two varieties are more abundant and have the external vitta 

 wholly obsolete. 



Cheilomenes lunatus Fabr. — St. Helena, Cape Town and Wellington. 



Cheilomenes orbicularis, sp. nov. — Similar in form to iiinatus, but with the discal 

 spot before the middle of each elytron broadly amalgamated with the humeral 

 elongate spot, the latter narrowly separated at base from the inner basal spot 

 and not fused with it as in lunatus. Further, with the transverse blotch at 

 the suture and apical third evidently formed of two spots and not forming a 

 regular arcuate band as in lunatus. Both of these species are represented by 

 large series, and the markings are extraordinarily constant in each. Liberia 

 (Mt. Coffee). 



Thea variegata Fabr. — Wellington. 



Epilachna reticulata Oliv. — Liberia (Mt. Coffee). The pale ground color be- 

 tween the spots is frequently filled with a black reticulation which never ap- 

 proaches the spots by more than half of their own diameter, the latter becom- 

 ing ocellated. 



Epilachna africana Crotch. — Liberia (Mt. Coffee). 



Epilachna liberiana, sp. nov. — Somewhat similar to africana, but larger and 

 more dilated. Broadly rounded, strongly convex, rufo-testaceous, the elytra, 

 epipleurae externally and legs throughout, black, the elytra sparsely and rather 

 finely but unequally punctate, each with six large subequal irregular pale 

 blotches, three subsutural and three submarginal, the anterior subsutural not 

 attaining the base and the posterior submarginal not in line with the three 

 subsutural. Length 6.8 mm. ; width 6.5 mm. Liberia (Mt. Coftee). 



