FAMILY COCCINELLIUiE. I37 



COCCINELLA 20-MAClLATA. ( p]a,e ^j^ Q^ 4^ 



Color pale honey-yellow, marked with twenty Mack spots somewhat confluent on the 

 middle of the elytra. Insect quite small. 

 In some of tlic plates the green coloring is too deep. There is a variable state of the 

 ground color : sometimes it is entirely pale honey-yellow ; in other insUinces. there is a 

 grayish green tinge, 



COCCINELLA NOVEMNOT.^TA. ( p]a,e jj, fig. 6.) 



Color luteous and reddish, marked with nine I.lack spots ; one common to each elytrum, 

 situated near tlie base. Thorax black, margined in front with pale honey-yellow : the 

 black portion extends in front towards the head : body black. The color of tlie elytra 

 is somewhat variable, yellow and reddish predominating eacli in different individuals. 



COCCINELLA IM.MACILATA. ( pjatp xi^ fig 9 J 



Color luteous : thorax black, margined with pale honey-yellow or whitish : elytra im- 

 maculate : body black. The flank of the thorax is quadridentate. 

 This insect does not agree with Mr. Say's description in every particular, still it is not 

 so different as to preclude the idea that it is a variety. 



COCCIKELLA EIMACILATA. ( pjajc xi, flSTS. 10, 11.) 



Color ferruginous, verging into luteous. Thorax varied with black and while • tlie white 

 dilated margins being marked with a black dot, the black arranged in the form of 

 two decussating wide linos. Head marked with a central black line, which divaricates 

 posteriorly, or sends off branches to the eyes. Elytra marked usuallv with a single 

 black dot : body black beneath. 



COCCIXELLA TRIOCILATA. 



The black spot upon the elytra is larger than in the preceding species, and the dilated 

 white margins of the tliorax are immaculate : the color of the Insect is paler. The abdo- 

 men is black, bordered with rufous. 



COCCIXELLA DUODECIM.NOTATA. 



Body black : head black and quadridentate in front, margined with luteous : thorax 

 black, marked with two oblique rectangular spots, and margined with luteous. Spots 

 of the elytra twelve, and none of them sutural. 



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