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recent journey by Mr Buckley. These shew conclusively that the 

 straw-yellow ground colour changes into testaceous and that the 

 colour of the head is variable ; the yellow colour on the sides of 

 the thorax never reaches the posterior angles, but on the other 

 hand sometimes almost etfaced, or only covers the anterior angles. 

 The elytra are visibly thickened at the margin, which is produced, 

 covered with coarse punctures. 



Neda Jourdani.* 



Neda Jourdani, Mute. Spec. p. 293. 20 (T). 



Columbia (Buquet, Dejean). This appeal's to be distinct, the 

 white colour on the thorax reaches the base, and the form is 

 shorter and more rounded, the elytra with the extreme apex black. 



Neda ochracea.* 



Neda ochracea, Mute. Spec. p. 279. 5. 

 Columbia (Paris). I have not seen this. 



Neda cardinalis.* 



Coccinella cardinalis, Erichs. Arch./. Nat. xir. p. 182 (1847). 



" Thorax black, sides yellow, the black colour dilated in a 

 curved line at the base ; elytra rounded, with a narrow margin, 

 red or ochreous-red, with the suture, base and margin black. Body 

 and legs black." L. 4 lin. Peru (Berlin). 



The type is in bad condition, and was not sent to me ; it may 

 be a var. of N. Norrisii. 



Neda ostrina. 



Coccinella ostrina, Erichs. Arch. f. Nat. xn. p. 182 (1847) T. 



Neda Orbignyi, Mute. Spec. p. 280. 6. 



Neda peruviana, Mute. Spec. p. 281. 7. 



Brazil, Mexico, Peru; punctuation close, fine, but visible; 

 elytra hardly margined ; colour variable, thorax with an abbre- 

 viated yellow medial line, the yellow base to the elytra sometimes 

 absent, the black pigment extremely variable. 



Neda patula. 



Coccinella patula, Erichs. Arch./. Nat. xn. p. 182. 1847 (T). 

 Neda andicola, Mute. Spec. p. 291. 19. 



Peru, Chili; "common all the year round on trees covered with 

 Aphides." 



Neda marginalis. 



Neda marginalis, Mids. Spec. p. 277. 3. 

 Nedajlavens, Muls. Op. in. p. 41 (T). 



