10G COCCINELLA. 



verse, sinuate, and faintly impressed behind the posterior angles; 

 plates subterminal, incomplete ; mesosternum not emarginate. This 

 is very like Cleis mirifica in design. 



Coccinella quinqne-lineata. 



Ilarmonia 5-lineata, Muls. Spec. p. 89. 11 (T). 

 Mexico (Chevrolat), closely allied to C. 'picta. 



Coccinella melanopleura.* 



Coccinella melanopleura, Leconte Proc. Phil. p. 236 (18G0). 



" Ovalis modice convexa capite thoraceque haud dense punctu- 

 latis, illo maculis 2 albis, hoc limbo antico, lateribus late (macula 

 nigra inchisa) lineola apicali, maculisque 2 basalibus albis, scutello 

 nigro, elytris ferrugineis, confertim subtiliter punetatis; subtus 

 nigra tibiis tarsisque fuscotestaceis." L. "21. Table Mountain 

 (Leconte). Closely resembles C. picta, but the body entirely black 

 beneath, and the elytra more finely punctured. 



Coccinella areata. 



Coccinella areata, Muls. Spec. p. 99. 7. 



Coccinella boliviana, Muls. Mon. p. 75. 4 (T). 



Oval, not very convex, black, alutaceous, opaque ; thorax 

 sparingly punctate, elytra almost impunctate ; head yellow in 

 front (<j) or with two yellow spots (V); thorax (which is sub- 

 transverse and slightly sinuate behind the posterior angles) with a 

 narrow yellow margin in front and at the sides; elytra with the 

 suture and margin narrowly reddish ochreous, each with five white 

 spots (one basal, by the scutellum, one linear outside the callus, 

 two in transverse line about the middle, one discoidal in the apical 

 fourth), the reddish margin is slightly dilated before the apex. 

 Body and legs beneath black. L. If lin. Bolivia (Deyrolle). 

 Chuquisaca (Paris). The first ventral segment smooth, impunctate. 

 Mesosternum simple. 



Coccinella Gerniainii, sp. n. 



Allied to C. areata, but hardly (if at all) alutaceous, shining, 

 extremely faintly and obsoletely punctulatej head and thorax simi- 

 lar to C. boliviana; elytra with the margins more markedly orange 

 red, the humeral line merged in the marginal colour, the outside 

 third spot turned into an elongate dash, the subapieal spot nearer 

 the margin and running into the red colour. L. 1\ lin. Chili 

 (Germain). Sent home somewhat abundantly; it is often labelled 

 " Adalia picla" in collections, 



