104 NESIS. 



Lioadalia luteopicta. 



Adalia luteopicta, Jf/ds. Man. p. 45. 17 (18G6) T. 



Ovate, subdepressed, black, very shining (as if varnished) and 

 extremely obsoletely punctulate ; head with two white spots ; 

 thorax with a quadrate white spot at the anterior angles; elytra 

 black, margin reflexed, concave, the external margin from the 

 scutellum to the apex ochreous, to this are joined five spots (one 

 basal, one below the callus, one medial, one subapical, one apical), 

 the suture from half to five-sixths ; a transversely oval spot before 

 the middle near the suture, a small discoidal spot at two-thirds, 

 also ochreous, epipleurse ochreous, epimera white. L. 3 lin. 

 E. Indies (Deyrolle), China (Bowring). 



Lioadalia Geinmingeri.* 



Adalia Gemminger i, Mais. Mon. p. 48. 21. 



"Brievement ovale. Prothorax noir, etroitement borde de blanc 

 flave, en devant, sur les cotes et sur ceux de sa base. Elytres d'un 

 flaye jaune, ornees d'une bordure suturale noire, etendue en de- 

 vant jusqu'au calus, obtriangulairement retrecie jusqu'a la moitie 

 de leur largeur, puis etroitement obtriangulaire, et enfin dilates en 

 une bande transversale suba])icale; ornees chacune d'une tache 

 semi-circulaire blanche, voisine de l'ecusson, et de deux taches 

 ponctiforines, noii"es; l'une sur le disque, 1 'autre, un peu plus pos- 

 terieure, pres du bord interne." L. 2 lin. 



1 (Gemminger). He describes it as being smooth and shining, 

 hardly punctulate, legs black. Dr Gemminger is unable to find 

 any such species in his collection. 



Isora. 



Jf/ds. Spec. p. 341 {typ. ancepa). 



Abdominal plates complete ; form hemispherical, epipleurse 

 inclined, punctuation invisible. This genus, placed by Mulsant in 



his second division, must evidently come here, and thus remove 

 the anomaly of a species with complete abdominal plates in that 

 section. 



Isora anceps. 



Isora anccps. Mills. Spec. p. 341. 1. 



Cape of Good Hope, Caffraria. Punctuation of the thorax 

 very fine and sparse, elytra impunctate, margins thickened. 



Nesis. 



Mids. Spec. p. G8 {typ. sycophanta). 



Abdominal plates as in Adalia. epipleuna of the elytra concave, 

 inclined ; punctuation very unequal, the larger punctures sparse. 



