186 CHILOCORUS. 



Chilocorus midas. 



Coccinella midas, King, Abh. Berl. 1834. p. 214. 211. 



Chilocorus midas, Muls. Spec, p. 461. 12. 



Madagascar. The punctuation is fine but clear, near the 

 margin of the elytra it becomes very coai'se but uniform. The 

 thorax, head and humeral angles of the elytra are clothed with 

 silky yellow hairs. 



Chilocorus Wahlbergii. 



Chilocorus Wahlbergii, Muls. Spec. p. 4G2. 13 (T). 

 Cape of Good Hope (Deyrolle), Caffraria (Stockholm). 

 The punctuation is very fine and very obsoletely impressed ; 

 the margins of the elytra with very deep scattered punctures. 



B. Thorax reddish orange. 



Chilocorus Dohrnii. 



Chilocorus Dohrnii, Muls. Spec. p. 457. 6. 



Senegal, Guinea (Deyrolle). The punctuation is fine, rather 

 faint and sparse ; form ovate. The coloration very much that 

 of Coelophora Petrequini. The elytra have a depressed line 

 nearly parallel to the margin at about i of their width, the 

 margin itself produced, without any very evident larger punctures. 

 The thorax is also faintly margined at the base. 



Chilocorus angolensis,* sp. n. 



Hemispherical, testaceous-yellow, elytra black, with an apical 

 spot yellow, thorax with the disc obscure. L. 3 lin. Angola 

 (Welwitsch). 



Clypeus emarginate, thorax with the sides rounded, basal line 

 fine but visible, epipleune simple ; anterior tibia? grooved the 

 whole length, external edge with a broad leaf-like expansion ; 

 elytra apparently smooth, under a high power minutely and very 

 closely punctured with larger punctures sparsely scattered over 

 them. 



Chilocorus circumdatus. 



Coccinella circumdata, Schbn. Syn. Ins. n. 152 (1808). 



Chilocorus circumdatus, Muls. Spec. p. 454. 2. 



Chilocorus nigro mar ginatus, Mots. Et. Ent. vm. 170. 



Ceylon (Schaum), Neilgherries (Guerin), Sumatra (Baly). 



Evidently and rather closely punctulate. Thorax with the 

 sides rounded and finely margined, the posterior fold visible. 



Var. punctuation fainter and more obsolete, elytra less visibly 

 margined. 



Tondano (Wallace). 



Chilocorus melanophthalmus. 

 Chilocorus melanophtluxlmus, Muls. Spec. p. 455. 3 (T). 



