June 1899 ] Casey : On American Coccinellid/e. 97 



3 — Body evenly elliptical, pale yellowish in color, the pronotum black with apical 

 and lateral margins and entire median line pale, the black area joining the basal 

 margin at the middle of each side ; punctures strong and quite close-set ; sides 

 evenly convergent, broadly and evenly arcuate ; elytra longer than wide, rather 

 narrowly rounded behind, the spots large, separated generally by about one-half 

 their widths ; epipleurse, limb of the abdomen, tibice and tarsi pale. Length 

 5.2 ram ; width 3.9 mm. British Columbia 1 2 = maculata Gebl. 



Body similar but smaller and rather more broadly oval, with the prothorax relatively 

 smaller and having the sides very much more strongly convergent, the basal 

 angles more broadly rounded and the punctures finer and sparser ; coloration 

 similar, except that the elytral spots are relatively much larger and only very nar- 

 rowly separated, the two transversely placed at the middle, generally confluent. 

 Length 40 mm.; width 3.2 mm. Hudson Bay elliptica, sp. nov. 



The form named hesperica by Crotch, is not included above and 

 must be regarded as a manuscript name. If any modification whatever 

 of a species is worthy of a distinctive name, it is worthy also of a de- 

 scription better than this : " Ventral segments and metasternum almost 

 smooth — Arizona," which is not even of comparative worth, as these 

 parts in the similis, described immediately above under the name of 

 14-gutiata, are not alluded to at all in regard to their sculpture. 



Anatis Muls. 



These are large, broadly oval or rounded and convex species, with 

 rather coarse unequal punctuation and deeply sinuate mesosternum. 

 The presternum is rather broad between the coxae, and is transversely 

 convex along the median line throughout, terminating at apex in a 

 conspicuous prominence. The antennas are moderately developed in 

 proportion to the size of the body, and the prothorax is less transverse 

 than usual. The American species are as follows, ocellata being intro- 

 duced for comparison : — 



Body oval or subrhomboidal, the pronotum black with broadly pale side-margins and 

 a black marginal spot extending from the basal angles to about two-fifths, angu- 

 larly oblique internally but never attaining the central black area, the sides of 

 which are feebly convergent, rectilinear but emarginate at the middle, also with 

 two approximate pale basal spots at the middle 2 



Body broadly subrhomboidal, the pronotum black with a broad yellow vitta extending 

 from base to apex, parallel and slightly distant from the side margin, which it 

 joins at the apical angles, also with two very minute pale points near the basal 

 margin at the middle 3 



2 — Elytra evenly oval, distinctly longer than wide, the side-margins black, the sub- 

 marginal spot at two-fifths, elongate-oval and not laterally extended, the subsutural 

 spot of the same range elongate ; basal pale spots of the pronotum subquadrate, 

 not united at base ; pale apical margin transverse, finely interrupted at the mid- 

 dle. Length S. 5 mm. ; width 6.3 mm. Europe *Ocellata Linn. 



