HIPPODAMIA VARIEGATA, GOEZK. 25 



Mulsant [1846] Sectir. p. 40 under A. imitahilis var. B. enlarges 

 Gmelin's original description, a proceeding tor which I find no 

 authority : — 



" Var. B. Elytres sans tache on n'offrant qu'une tache juxta 

 gcutellaire, commune aux deux etuis." 



" Coccinella itiipunrtata, Zschach. Man. Leak. p. 11. no. 211. . . . 



" Coccinellti iiiiiuacidata, Gmel., C Linn. Si/st. Xat., p. 1644. 155. 



" (^'occinella tnutubdis, Gyllenh., Inn. Siiee. t. 4. p. [sic] var. e." 



Similarly Weise [lb79] B.T. incorrectly describes Gmelin's ab. 

 imiiiacidata as : 



" a. Fig. mit 1 P. ^ ... V. iiiniiacidata, Gmel." 

 which, equally incorrectly, in 1885 he enlarges into : — 



" a. Fig. ohne schwarze P. oder nur mit dem geraeinshaft- 

 lichen am Schildchen ... v. immacidata, Gmel." 



Stierlin [1886] in CoL Helv. II., Ganglbauer [1889] in Kdf. 

 Mitteleitr, L'Abeille [1892] in Jour. d.Ent. T. xxviii. and Reitter 

 [1911] in Faun. Genu. III. p. 137, No. 17, fall into the same error, 

 following Weise's description of 1885. 



I propose therefore to name the var. e. of Gyllenhall to distinguish 

 it from ab. inniiacidata, Gmel. 



(2) ab. Scutellopunctata, n.ab. 



C. miitabili^i, Gyll. [1827] , Ins. Suer. T. 1, pars. 4, p. 211, No. 47, 

 var. e. 



This aberration is described by Gyllenhall, without any specific 

 name, as having only the common scutellar spot. 



It was subsequently grouped bj^ Mulsant, Wiese, Stierlin, Gangl- 

 bauer, L'Abeille and Reitter under ab. iimnaculata, Gmel., but as this 

 latter is devoid of any spots, it cannot be properly referred to such 

 aberration. 



The formula therefore for this aberration will be : ^. 



Gyllenhall states that his var, e. was taken in Scania at Ystad 

 and that it i;> rare in his country (Sweden). His authority was 

 Zetterstedt. 



(8) To return to Hummel, he also describes a new aberration, but 

 without assigning to it any specific name : — 



" Thorace radio in medio brevissimo et punctis utrinque minutis 

 albidis, elytris puncto unico pone medium ad marginem." 



If as seems probable, as Hummel was writing on variations of C. 

 niutabilis (which, as H. variegata, Goez., ab. siiiiilis, Schrank, has 13 

 spots including the ^ spot), this aberration had the ^ spot present, then 

 it corresponds in its formula of 4, i with the aberration named by 

 W«ise [1879] as ab. hunimeli. 



If, per contra, there was no i spot, but only the single spot 4, I 

 find no record of any such named aberration. 



III. — On the distinguishing characteristics of the sexes of this 

 species collated from various authors : — 



While working out this species and its aben-ations I have collated 

 such information as I have been able to obtain from the many authors 

 1 have consulted on the differences in sex, and I venture to append 

 such data, in case it may prove useful to any other Collector interested 

 n this species and help him to distinguish the sexes. 



