198 PLATYNASPIS. 



edged with yellow, reaching to about ^ ; elytra each with 3 yellow 

 spots (2 transversely placed in the middle, 1 larger, oval, suba- 

 pical). L. | lin. Singapore (Saunders). 



B. Thorax truncate in front of the scutelluni. 



Platynaspis Solieri.* 



Platynaspis Solieri, Mvls. /6/>ec. p. 947. 4 (T). 



Africa (Dupont). 



Subovate, depressed, punctuation not very strong. 



Platynaspis mesomelas. 



Coccinella mesomela, Klug. Abh. Berl. Ahad. 1833. p. 127. 

 Platynaspis bisignata, Muls. Spec. p. 946. 3. 

 Madagascar (Paris, Deyrolle). 



Platynaspis Kollari.* 



Platynaspis Kollari, Muls. Spec. p. 945. 1 (T). 

 Senegal (JBuquet). Old Calabar (Murray). 



Platynaspis nigropectoralis. 



Scymnus nigropectoralis, Thorns. Arch Eat. II. p. 238. 434. 

 (1858). 



" D'un rouge un peu testace tres brillant, avec le milieu de 

 la poitrine et les genoux noirs ; hemispherique, finement et assez 

 densement ponctue, couvert d'une pubescence d'un gris roussatre 

 assez serree. Chaperon fortement echancre." Gaboon (Thomson). 



Platynaspis Lewisii, sp. n. 



Fulvous, spotted with black, suborbiculate ; head fulvous, 

 thorax in front very narrowly, anterior angles triangularly, fulvous; 

 elytra fulvous-red, margined all round with black, and 2 sub- 

 oblong dorsal black dots, 1 a little before, 1 a little behind the 

 middle. L. 1} lin. Shanghai (Deyrolle). 



Thorax Insinuate at the base, truncate before the scutellum, 

 elytra coarsely and sparsely punctate. 



Platynaspis Wallacii. 



Allied to P. Solieri ; thorax almost emarginate before the 

 scutellum; black; thorax with the sides broadly, elytra with a 

 small subapical point, fulvous. L. 1 lin. Mores. 



Thorax deeply bLsinuate at the base arid produced in front of 

 the scutellum. 



Platynaspis variegata, sp. n. 



Black, thorax with the sides, elytra with a large irregular 

 discoidal patch, abdomen and legs fulvOus. L. 1 lin. Cochin- 

 China. 



