462 INSECTA MADERENSIA. 



§ II. Corpus plus minvsve Jiemispheericum convextim ; unguiculis ad basin dente lato acuto armatis. 



353. Coccinella 7-punctata. 

 C. nigra, capitis maculis duabus, et prothoracis angulis anticis, flavo-albidis, elytris rufis, pustulis 



tribus in singulo positis unaque basali communi nigris ornatis. 

 Long, coi-p. lin. 3-3|. 



Coccinella 7-punctata, Linn. Fna Suec. 477 (1761). 



, Tab. Ent. Syst. i. 274 (1792). 



, Gvll. Ins. Suec. iv. 163 (1827). 



, Mulsant, Secicrip. de France, 79 (1846). 



Habitat in locis graminosis omnium insiilarum Maderensium, bine inde nou infrequens. 



C. black. Head witb a dash at the inner margin of each eye, and the prothorax with the anterior 



angles, yellowish-white. Elytra pale rufous ; with three large well-defined spots on each, and a 

 central (double) one common to both, at the scutcllum (which has generally a whitish cloud in 

 front of it), black. 



The most iinivcrsal of all the Lady-Birds mth which I am acquainted, occurring 

 in profusion throughout the whole of Europe and the north of Africa, and being 

 found, in fact, in nearly every country of the Old "VA'orld. Its larger Intlk, and the 

 seven black spots of its pale-rufous elytra will at once distinguish it from the other 

 species with which we have here to do. It is recorded likewise in the Canary 

 Islands. In Madeira it does not appear to be very abundant, though widely 

 distributed over the group, from the level of the sea-shore to the mountain sum- 

 mits. In Porto Santo and on the Deserta Grande I have observed it in tolerable 

 numbers. 



354. Coccinella 14-pustulata. 

 C. nigi-a, capitis maculis duabus, prothoracis lateribus margineque antico (postice in medio vix pro- 



ducto), et elytri singuli pustulis septem, flavis ornatis, tibiis tarsisque plus minusve testaceis. 

 Long. corj). lin. 3. 



Coccinella U-pustulata, Linn. Fna Suec. 502 (1761). 



, Fab. Fnt. Si/st. i. 290 (1792). 



, GyD. Ins. Suec. iv. 156 (1827). 



, Mulsant, Securip. de France, 93 (1846). 



Habitat Maderam, rarissima : exemplar unicum a Dom. Heinecken olim captum amicissime commu- 

 nicavit Rev'''" Dom. Lowe. 



C. black. Head with a dash at the inner margin of each eye, the prothorax with the sides and the 

 front margin (the latter of which is slightly produced backwards in the centre, and also a good 

 deal enlarged about the anterior angles), and the elytra with seven large well-defined rounded 

 patches on each, yellow. Anterior tibia and tarsi, and portions of the four hinder ones, 

 testaceous. 



