164 CYCLONEDA. 



Cycloneda puncticollis. 



Daidis puncticollis, Muls. Spec. p. 320. 1 7 (T). 



Cayenne (Deyrolle). Punctuation coarse and rather close. 



Cycloneda pallidula. 



Daidis pallidula, Muls. Spec. p. 329. 23 (T). 



Daulis deflorata, Muls. Spec. p. 330. 24 (T) 



Daulis gutticollis, Muls. Spec. p. 332. 26. 



Columbia, Venezuela. This species varies a good deal in ap- 

 pearance, being in life of a bright green, which fades to a dirty 

 yellow. The thorax also varies in design. The species cited 

 above are nearly all unique examples. 



Cycloneda sanguinea. 



Coccinella sanguinea, Linn. Cent. Ins. n. 11 (1763). 



Daidis sanguinea, Muls. Spec. p. 326. 22. 



Daulis Steinii, Muls. Mon. p. 222. 23 (T). C<yp<^o,?i^<. 



Widely spread from Mexico and California to Brazil and Peru ; 

 it varies extremely in size and in intensity of colour. It is ap- 

 parently extremely abundant everywhere. Surface alutaceous, 

 punctuation sparse and obsolete. 



Cycloneda erythroptera. 



Daulis erythroptera, Muls. Spec. p. 319. 16 (T). 

 Daidis Proserpina^, Mids. Mon. p. 223. 24 (T). 

 Buenos Ayres (Chevrolat, Dejean, Berlin). 

 Near C . sanguinea, but more ovate. 



Cycloneda ferruginea. 



Coccinella ferruginea, Oliv. Ent. vi. p. 991. 3, pi. v. 56 (1808). 



Daulis ferruginea, Muls. Spec. p. 223. 27. 



Haiti. The elytra have the irregular marginal pimctures un- 

 usually well marked, alutaceous, the punctuation extremely sparse 

 and obsolete, the epipleuraj horizontal, concave, acuminate at two- 

 thirds. 



Cycloneda metallica, sp. n. 



Very like C. ferruginea, but more ovate, less hemispherical, 

 punctuation more evident, interstices alutaceous ; thorax brownish- 

 red, elytra metallic-green, body beneath and legs reddish. L. 2i 

 lin. R. Amazon. 



This unusually coloured species was kindly ceded me by Mr 

 N. W. Saunders. 



