166 CYCLONliDA. 



Cycloneda antillensis, sp. n. 



Ovate, elytra yellowish, with five brown spots; 2 equal, basal, 

 2 equal, medial, 1 irregular subapical, obsolete; punctuation evi- 

 dent and rather close. L. 2| lin. Trinidad (Fry). 



Cycloneda maeander. 



Daulis maeauder, Muls. Spec. p. 335. 29. 



Mexico, Cayenne, S. Paulo (Bates); sparsely and obsoletely 

 punctured; design variable, sometimes confused. 



Cycloneda lorata. 



Daulis lorata, Mids. Spec. p. 338. 30. 



S. Catharina, Bahia (Fry). The coloration is an almost exact 

 reproduction of that of Psyll. hybrida. Punctuation tolerably 

 close, surface alutaceous. 



Cycloneda oculata. 



Coccinella ocidata\\, Fair. Ent. Syst. i. p. 287. 98 (1792). 



Coccinetta binotata, Say, J. Acad. Phil. iv. p. 302. 2 (1820). 



Daulis binotata, Muls. Spec. p. 322. 19. 



United States ; this species is very variable, (I do not know its 

 pale form). Mulsant suggests that it may have seven dark spots 

 on a pale ground. Surface alutaceous ; abdominal plates V-shapecL 



Cycloneda ebenina. 



Daulis ebenina, Muls. Mon. p. 222. 24 (T). 



Short, circular, not very convex, punctuation coarse, evident, 

 close ; head and underside yellow ; thorax black, with the sides 

 very broadly and an obsolete medial line rich yellow ; elytra black, 

 epipleurse pale on the inner margin. L. 3j lin. Peru (Deyrolle). 

 The short circular form recalls the genus Neda, the mesosternum 

 is emarginate and the abdominal plates V-shaped. 



The coloration is that of Synia melanopepla. 



Cycloneda Gilardini.* 



Daulis Gilardini, Muls. Mon. p. 214. 9. 



Hemispherical, black, thorax with the sides white; elytra each 

 with ten large rounded yellow spots; 1 basal joined to the scutel- 

 lum, 1 marginal below the shoulder, 1 discoidal, near the suture 

 a little before the middle (sometimes united to the first), 2 placed 

 across at four-fifths (the external reaching the margin), 1 subapical. 

 L. 2£ lin. Columbia (Salle). 



