17C TEBANIA. 



Punctuation tolerably visible, surface alutaceous. Sometimes 

 it is nearly suffused with black. Montrouzier's species is identi- 

 fied from a specimen sent by Fauvel, however Montrouzier speaks 

 of a ti'ansverse line cutting the vitta in two, which is quite im- 

 possible in a Verania, otherwise his description agrees well enough. 

 He says that he has found it in copuld with C. Mvlsanti. 



Verania flavovittata, sp. n. 



Black, head yellow, thorax yellow with the base black, four- 

 lobed in front; elytra yellow, margin (narrowly), suture, and a 

 curved hooked longitudinal mark black, the latter parallel to 

 the margin and recurved sharply to the suture, which it reaches 

 at about half its length; tarsi pale; punctuation strong, evident. 

 L. 21 lin. Melbourne (B. M.). 



Verania lineola. 



Coccinella lineola, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 79. 5 (1775). 



Coccinella striola, Fabr. III. Mag. n. p. 293 (1803). 



Verania striola, Mids. Spec. p. 367. 6. 



Coccinella strigula, Boisd. Toy. Astrol. p. 601. 19 (1835). 



Verania strigula, Muls. Spec. p. 366. 5. 



Australia (Deyrolle). A variety with the vitta interrupted is 

 rarer; it differs from V. lineata by the more obsolete punctuation, 

 and by the vitta being truncate at the base. 



Verania lineata. 



Coccinella lineata, Thunb. N. I. Sp. p. 21, f. 31 (1781). 



Verania lineata, Muls. Spec. p. 360. 2. 



Java (Mulsant), Waigiou, Batchian, Bali, Tidore (Wallace). 

 Mulsant also cites Australia and the Cape, but I have never seen 

 specimens from either locality. The suborbicular form and the 

 produced margins to the elytra more resemble Micraspis. 



Verania afflicta. 



Verania afflicta, Muls. Spec. p. 372. 9. 



Java (Wallace), Borneo, Sumatra (Copenhagen). Mulsant 

 also qxiotes the Cape, but in error. It has precisely the colouring 

 of Coelophora caliginosa and of Exochomus auritus. 



Verania discolor. 



Coccinella discolor, Fabr. Siqyl. Ent. Syst. p. 77 (1798). 

 Verania discolor, Mids. Spec. p. 369. 8. 

 Cleis lida, Muls. Op. vn. p. 143 (1856), T. 

 J/armonia vrocea, Muls. Mon. p. 58. 6 (1866), T. 

 Harmoniu tabida, Mids. Mon. p. 59 (1866), T. 

 llormonia nirjrilcbris. Mids. Mon. p. 73 (1866), T. 



