484 CLAVICORNIA — COCCINELLIDAE. 



2. Anterior margin of mesosterniim not sinuate. 



A A, Elytra with broad side border. 



Each elytron with eight spots, lateral ones attached to 

 whitish side-border. L. 2| 1. Common. 0. 16-guttata, Lin. 



1? J5. Elytra with narrow side border. 



Each elytron with six spots, L. 1| 1. Scarce. 



C. 12-guttata, Poda. 



h. Elytra yellow, with black spots, or black with yellow 

 spots. 



I. Spots angular, meeting each other at corners. 



Thorax with six, elytra with suture and seven spots on 

 each black. L. 1| — 2 1. Common. C. 14:-2)unctata, Lin. 



II. Spots round, separate. 



Thorax with five, each elytron with eleven black spots. 

 L. 1^ — 2 1. Common. C. '22-punctata, Lin. 



3Iicras2)is. 



Upper-side yellow ; forehead and thorax with black 

 spots ; elytra with black suture and spots, viz. : four in a 

 row near suture and five at side, the third of these large 

 and connected with fourth by a black line. L. 1^ 1. 

 Common. M. 12-punctata, Lin. 



Chilocorifs. 



A. Head black ; abdomen entirely red. 



Thorax and elytra black, latter with an oval transverse 

 red spot on each ; sides of thorax sometimes reddish ; legs 

 black. L. 1-|- — 2 1. Moderately connnon. 



C. rc7ii])ustulatus, Scrib. 



li. Head red ; abdomen black, red at sides. 



Thorax and elytra black, latter with a narrow, compouiul, 

 abbreviated band; legs black, knees red. L. 1\ — If 1. 

 Common. G. hipustulatus, Lin. 



Exochonius. 



A. Elytra Ijlack, with a crescent-shaped spot at shoulder 

 and another in middle of each. 



Head black ; abdomen red ; colour of thorax and legs 

 variable. L. 1^ — 21. Common. E. quadripustulatus,lum. 



