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Readily clistingmshecl from the other Coccinellce with which we are here con- 

 cerned hy its black surface, and by the seven large, well-defined, rounded, yellow 

 sjjots on each of its elytra, — which moreover have not a common, central one in 

 front of the scutellum. Although an aliundant insect throughout Eiu'ope, it is 

 apparently scarce in Madeira, the only specimen which I have seen being a very 

 old one from the collection of the late Dr. Heinecken, and commiinicated to me by 

 the Rev. R. T. Lowe. It seems to differ in no respect from the ordinary tjq)e. 



355. Coccinella testudinea. 



C. nigra, capitis maculis duabus, prothoracis lateribus margineque antico (postice longissime trifur- 

 cato), et elytri singuli plagis quinque magnis ii-regularibus, pallido-flavis ornatis, pedibus 

 testaceis. 

 Var, j3. maculis plagisque omnino majoribus, plus minusve confluentibus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 2^. 



Coccinella testudinea, Heinecken, in Hit. 



Habitat Maderam, et borealem et australem, praesertim in hortis super folia Hibiscorum, sestate non 

 infrequens. 



C. black, and more shining than any of the other species. Head with a large dash at the inner 

 margin of each eye, the prothorax with the sides and the front margin (the latter of which is pro- 

 duced backwards in the centre into an exceedingly elongated bar, reaching about two-thirds of 

 the way to the scutellum, and also on either side into a shorter and broader lobe, — the three 

 together causing the pale margin to be strongly trifurcate), and the elytra with five large irregular 

 elongated patches on each (aiTanged longitudinally, and the marginal ones generally more or 

 less confluent), very pale yellow. Antennae and legs testaceous. 

 Vm-. /3. with the yellow spots and patches altogether very much developed and confluent ; — those 

 between the eyes being united, causing the whole forehead to be pale ; the two outer lobes of the 

 front prothoracic margin dilated, so as to join the pale lateral margin of the hinder angles 

 (enclosing merely a small, rounded, black spot) ; the central bar hastate (being transversely 

 dilated behind and but just separated from a minute transverse pale patch on the hinder margin, 

 opposite the scutellum) ; and both the dorsal and lateral pair of the elytral blotches being greatly 

 confluent, leaving only the suture, a small rounded spot on the centre (which marks the separa- 

 tion of the dorsal patches), two larger blotches towards the margin (which mark, in like manner, 

 the separation of the lateral ones), and an irregular longitudinal hne down the outer disk, not 

 quite reaching to the apex, black. 



A weU-defined Coccinella, somewhat resemljHng, at fli'st sight, the common 

 C. conglomerata of more northern latitudes, though abundantly distinct from it 

 specifically, — not only in its superior bulk and much more oval form, but likewise 

 in its entii'ely testaceous legs and in the number, positions and development of its 

 patches. It may be known from the other Madeii'an species hj the almost equal 

 portions of yellow and ])lack with which its upper sm*face is maculated, by the 



