19G PLATYNASPIS. 



arceaux du ventre d'un roux jaune ; reste du dessous du corps et 

 elytres, noirs ; celles-ci ornees d'une bordure exteme d'uu roux 

 testace couvrant le tiers exteme de la base, bientot apres etroit ou 

 reduite a la tranche dont le rebord reste noir, elargie a partir des 

 deux tiers jusqu'a la suture dont elle couvre le septieine posterieur. 

 Repli d'un roux testace." L. 1J lin. Egypt. Ecusson noir. 



Brmnus uropygialis. 



Exochomus uropygialis, Mais. Op. in. p. G8 (1853) T. 



Ovate, black, pubescent, pubescence coarse, very close; elytra 

 ochreous with the extreme apex black; scutellum very small, 

 black. L. 2 lin. N. India. 



N. India, Sylhet (Deyrolle). This species, described by 

 Mulsant as an Exochomus, is evidently allied to Brumus, and 

 should form another genus, characterized by its pubescent surface. 



Platynaspis. 

 Redtenb., Tentamen, p. 11 (typ. luteorubra). 



This genus appears to me better placed in the ChUocorides than 

 in the Sey amides ; the pubescent surface is not a character of a 

 high order, and the European P. lateorubra is almost the only 

 Scymnus-looking species. P. pubescens, ranked by Mulsant in 

 Exochomus and Platynaspis, is certainly congeneric with P, 

 capicola, bella, etc. 



A. thorax rounded behind. 



Platynaspis luteo-rnbra. 



Cvccinella velueci 2)oints, Geoff. Hist . Nat. I. 322. 22 (17G2). 

 Coccinella lutec-rubra, Goeze. Ent. Beyt. I. p. 247 (177N). 

 Coccinella villosa, Fowrc. Ent. Par. t. 1 19. 22 (1785). 

 Platynaspis villosa, JIuls. Secur. p. 21 G. 1 (18-16). 

 Scymhus spectabilis, Fold. Mem. Mosc. v. p. 410 (1837). 

 Europe, Algeria, Persia. 

 Elongate-ovate, subdepressed. 



Platynaspis pubescens. 



Exochomus pubesc&ns, Kilst. Kaf. Eur, xni. 94. 



Platynaspis fia/oilabris, Muls. Spec. p. 947. 5. 



Subnemispherical, black, with a line sparse silvery pubescence; 

 thorax with the Bides broadly orange; elytra rather closely but 

 extremely minutely punctulate. L. 1 lin. 



In the salt marshes behind Carthagena, rare; also from Persia, 

 where a variety occurs having the thorax and apex of the elytra 

 orange. 



Platynaspis bella. 

 Epilachna Julia Woll.Cat. Conor. Col. p. 425. 

 " E. Nitidissima. paulo distinctius (sed tamen minutissime) 



