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China, India, Philippines, Java, Batchian (Wallace). 

 This very variable species occurs throughout the east; and is 

 recorded by Mulsant from Australia. 



Verania Allardi. 



Lemnia Allardi, Muls. Mon. p. 249. 2 (T). 



Suborbicular, but little convex, light ochreous; thorax with 

 2 small black dots on the base ; elytra each with two black marks, 

 one oblique, narrow, just before the middle, oue rounded in the 

 posterior third. L. If lin. N. India (Deyrolle). 



This is extremely close to P. malaccensis, but can hardly be a 

 variety of it; the spots of the elyti*a do not hold the same relative 

 position. 



Verania malaccensis, sp. n. 



Suborbicular, light ochreous yellow; punctuation obsolete and 

 very sparse, thorax with two large black triangular marks, one 

 on either side the base, nearly reaching the anterior margin, elytra 

 with the sutural margin narrowly black, and each with two large 

 black spots; one obtriangular before the middle, one suboval 

 beyond it, separated by a narrow patch of ochreous. L. 2 lin. 

 Gilolo (Wallace). 



Antennae extremely short. 



Verania artensis.* 



Verania artensis, Montrouz. Ann. Fr. (4) i. p. 305. 293. 



Subhemispherique. Tete, antennes et palpes jaunes. Yeux 

 noirs. Prothorax marque d'une tache basilaire quadrilobee en 

 devant, avec la partie anterieure jaune, emettant en arriere cinq 

 dents inegales, ecusson noir. Elytres jaunes, parees d'une bordure 

 suturale, d'une bordure marginale legere, et chacune d'une tache, 

 noires; la bordure suturale elargie vers la base et a l'extremite; 

 la tache munie de trois pointes obtuses en devant, offrant en 

 arriere une autre pointe atteignant la suture et le bord exterieur, 

 et envoyant une dent obtuse sur le limbe. Poitrine noire. 

 Ventre annele de roux et de noir. Pieds noirs. L. 24_ lin. 

 Balade, Art (Montrouzier). 



Synia. 



Muls. Spec. p. 375 (typ. melanaria). 



The semicircularly emarginate clypeus and the triangularly 

 emarginate metasternum at once characterize this genus. The 

 epipleurce are very deeply foveolate for the femora. 



Synia melanaria. 



Synia melanaria, Muls. Spec. p. 375. 1. 



Coccinella cassidoides, Montr. Faune de Vile de Woodlark, p. 77. 

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