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loving species were systematically collected throughout its range in 

 this country. 



I am not aware that any extensive study of the variation in the 

 British Coccinellidse has been published in recent years ; in some 

 quarters the subject is regarded as too trivial, but there can be little 

 doubt that the various kinds of colour-pattern are of importance to 

 the organism, and the history of the various species can hardly be 

 adequately treated unless this matter be taken into account. It may 

 be worth while here to record my experience that, in the case of vari- 

 able species, specimens found in cop. are very seldom both alike in 

 elytral pattern. 



A. H. Haworth in a paper read before the Entomological 

 Society of London in November, 1807, and published in the first 

 volume of the Transactions of that body in 1812 (pp. 257-296), gives 

 a good account of the kinds known to him. This paper, possibly 

 owing to its scarcity, has not received the attention which it deserves ; 

 Mulsant (Sulcicolles-Securipalpes, 1846) quotes it, but only from 

 Stephens (Syst. Cat. Brit. Ins., 1829) and not at first hand; Weise 

 (I. c.) quotes Haworth as the author of the name bistriverrucata, but 

 he does not seem to have been aware that many of his own names fall 

 as synonyms to those of Haworth, e.g., C. 7 -punctata, var. h-notaia, 

 Haw. = extemepunctata, Weise; C. lO-jmnclata, var. bina, Haw. = 

 loricata, Weise; var. terna, Haw. = trig emina, Weise; C. W-ptunctata, 

 var. confluens, Haw. = longxda, Weise, and so on. In the Transactions 

 of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol. Ill, pp. 477- 

 482, 1895, B. Gr. Bye has some il Notes on the varieties of the British 

 Coccinellidae " in which he gives names to many forms, but the majority 

 of these names fall as synonyms. He says that Adalia hyverborea had 

 been recently discovered at Beading by Dr. Andrews, but I learn on 

 inquiry that this gentleman is now satisfied that the specimen in 

 question is C. 10-punctata. Stephens' example of hyperborea came 

 from Scotland. Bye's paper is accompanied by a capital plate, and 

 his figures 9 and 10 represent two remarkable forms of C. 10-punctata 

 which do not exactly fit any description with which I am acquainted ; 

 the former, which he calls var. intermediata (sic), has the spots 1 + 3 

 + 6, 3 + 4, 2, 5 ; the latter, to which he gives no name, has 4 + 4 

 forming a circular spot on the middle of the suture, 3 + 6+6 + 3 

 the transverse band formed by 6 + 6 connected with the central spot 

 along the suture, 1, 2, 5. 



At a meeting of the Entomological Society of London on April 5th, 



