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garded all these three species as one, but the pnnctnation and the 

 shape of the thorax present some slight differences. Further 

 material can alone decide the question. 



Leis Deyrollii, sp. n. 



The only specimen I have seen is unfortunately impei-fect; 

 elytra black, rather closely and evidently punctate, a humeral sub- 

 quadrate spot and an apical rounded spot carmine-red, both reach- 

 ing the margin; body and legs beneath orange. L. 3 lin. 1 



Leis quindecim-maculata. 



CoccineUa \5-i>iacy,lata, Hope, Zool. Misc. p. 30 (1831) T. 



Leis \5-maculata, Muls. Spec. p. 246. 5. 



CoccineUa 15-spilota, Hope, Zool. Misc. p. 30 (1831) T. 



Leis \5-spilota, Muls. Spec. p. 2-18. 6. 



India, China (Foochow); not rare; on thistles. Why Mulsant 

 placed these two forms (which only differ in a slight excess of pig- 

 ment) in two sections, I am unable to see. 



Leis cracigera.* 



CoccineUa crucigera, Schiin. Syn. Ins. n. p. 182. 87. pi. iv. 4 

 (1806). 



" Subrotunda, gibbosa, saturate rabra nitida, elytrornm limbo, 

 sutura fascia media, maculisque 4 atris. Ind. or." (Kymell). 



*' Magna, elegans, statura C. versicoloris sed dimidio fere minor, 

 nitida, subtilissime obsolete punctnlata. Caput parvmn. rubrum, 

 immaculatum. Thorax parvus, postice et lateribns rotnndatis. 

 antice late emarginatus, angulia parum prodttctia obtusis, limbo 

 pdstico huequaliter atro. Scutellum breve, triangnlare, aeutum, 

 nigropiceum. Elytra magna rotundata valde convexa, gibbosa, 

 nitida. limbo toto, baseos angustius, atro; sutura tota late atra : 

 paulo ante medium faseia atra transversa, limbum margins non 

 attingens ; ante fascia in m medio macula solitaria rotundata atra, 

 et pone faseiam rdia major obconica, obliqua margini connexa. 

 Ahe obscure fuscse apice pallidiores. Corpus subtus dilutius rut'um 

 pectore abdominisque basi media nigris. Pedes pallidi ruri." (Gyl- 

 lenhal.) 



Leis La Peyrousii.* 



CoccineUa La Peyrousii {Bowl.) Yoy. de V Astrol. T. Tin. f. 20. 

 This species obtained from N. Guinea seems to come best in 

 this genus. 



Ptychanatis. 



g. n. (fyp. axyridis). 

 The species of this genus, hitherto ranked in Leis, are extremely 



