Dec. 1903.J Lexg : North Amkricax Cocci NELLiD.t. 201 



. Var. nevadica Cusiy, 1899, 1. c , p. 88. 



" Scutellar spot small and oblong or rhoniboidal ; pronotum without a pale apical 

 margin ; elytral suture not at all darker in color ; body broadly oval, strongly convex, 

 the pronotum black with a subciuadrale pale spot at each apical angle, the punctures 

 fine and unusually close-set, giving a feebly alutaceous luster ; elytra immaculate, 

 except a small black scutellar spot flanked at each side by a pale spot at the basal 

 margin, the punctures fine and rather close-set, becoming quite strong laterally; 

 abdominal plates strongly defined, broadly ogival in form internally. Length, 5.8 

 mm.; width, 4.5 mm. Nevada (Reno)." 



Major Casey places this variety near g-uotata, but on accoiuit of 

 the absence of sutural darkening and pale apical margin of pronotum 

 it seems to belong with j-/asciafa. 



3062. C. tricuspis Kirby, 1837, Faun. IJor. Am., IV, p. 231. 



Elytra strongly punctulate, shining; black, ovate, less convex, thorax with the 

 anterior angles triangularly whitish ; elytra orange with a common black subbasal 

 fascia, tridentate in front, and each with a triangular subapical spot black. Length, 

 4 mm. = .20 inch. 



Occurs in Hudson's Bay Territory, Canada, Lake Superior, Kansas, 

 Siberia, Michigan. Rare in collections. 



C. menetriesi Muh., 1851, Spec, p. 104. 



This species, y?</^ Crotch, is not rare in parts of Siberia, Mongolia, 

 Persia and Egypt, but though described from California, there is no 

 other record of its occurrence in our territory. The name should be 

 dropped. I add the description however to aid in identification in 

 case it should be found. 



Oval ; prothorax black, sides bordered with yellowish-while more broadly in front; 

 elytra orange, paler at the sides of the scutellum, sometimes immaculate, usually with 

 a common scutellar black obcordiform spot and five others on each, arranged as 

 follows : one on the callus, small, one at two sevenths submarginal large, oval and 

 transverse, one subsutural at three sevenths also large, one submarginal at two thirds, 

 one subsutural at three fourths ; the four spots forming two oblique pairs, the outer 

 spots being nearer the base than the inner; epimera white. Length, 4 5-5.6 mm. 

 ^ .18-. 22 inch. 



Occurs in Russian Asia (and California? ). 



Cited by Gemminger and Harold as a variety of undecintpunctata L. 



Subgenus Neoharmonia Casey. 



Separated from Coccinella by the form and ornamentation of the 

 body, more broadly reflexed side margins, more depressed surface 

 and emarginate mesosternum. The i)unctuation also is distinct. 



Includes Coccinella affinis Rand., and its variety venusta Muls. 

 (3055 and 3055a of check list) and the Mexican species ampla. The 



