Dec , 1903] Leng : North American Coccinellid.'e. 205 



Type Locality : Las ^'egas, New Mexico. 



I have not seen this form, which maybe an individual variation of 

 J>iagiata. 



3065a. O. abdominalis Say, 1S24, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. I'liil., IV, p. 95. 



Entirely pale ochreous, thorax with seven black dots, five discoidal (forming 

 an M-like mark), two lateral ; elytra each with eight black dots, four subbasal, three 

 medial, one submarginal before the apex ; broadly oval and strongly convex, very 

 finely and obsoletely punctulate, side margins of elytra quite broadly retlexed ; under 

 surface and legs pale. Length, 4.25-5.25 mm. :=.I7-. 21 inch. 



Occurs from Indiana to Texas, Arizona and California. 



There is little variation in this species ; Crotch describes a form 

 with a large black triangular mark in the posterior half of the elytra 

 which I have not seen ; several specimens in my collection lack part 

 of the elytral spots. 



There is no apparent reason for classing this as a variety of the 

 preceding. The name Sijvi Crotch, List Coccinellid^, 1S71, p. 6, is 

 synonymous. 



Harmon ia Mulsaiit. 



Metacoxal plates only partially divided, the oblique line feeble or 

 lacking. 



3069. H. picta Randall, 1838, Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., II, p. 51. 



Oval, rather depressed ; black, legs orange ; head yellow with two interrupted 

 frontal vittce black ; thorax punctulate, very short, spotted with yellow and very 

 variable, two approximate spots at middle of base always present, sometimes united ; 

 elytra variable, closely and distinctly punctate ; underside black, prosternum and 

 epipleuroe yellow, episternum black ; mesosternum and three side pieces yellow ; 

 metasternum black, episternum and epimera yellow. 



The elytra are yellow, without spots in the male, more or less variegated with 

 black in the female which sex is apparently the more abundant. Length, 3. 5-5.0 

 mm. ^.15-. 20 inch. 



The name contexta Muls. applies to the female in which the black 

 color forms two transverse bands sublaterally connected ; the name 

 conciiniata Muls. applies to those females in which the elytra are almost 

 wholly black. 



Occurs throughout the northern part of our territory and probably 

 wherever pine is found. It attacks aphids living on that tree. 



The following varieties have been described : 



. Var. minor Casey, 1899, 1. c, p. 95. 



.Sublateral spot of pronotum feebler and usually disintegrated ; body smaller, 

 slightly feebler punctures, dark design of elytra paler in color and less developed, ex,- 



