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49. Cryptocephalus Wasastjernii, Gyll. Ins. Siiec. 



Tom. iv (Append.) 669. 21, 22; G. R. Crotch, 

 Zool. 8413 (1863), {C. Wasastjernce). 

 Mr. Crotch records the discoveiy by him of this species 

 among his specimens of C lahiatus (taken, I presume, at 

 Weston-super-Mare). He also states that it can be easily 

 recognized by its roughly punctured thorax, and by the dif- 

 ferent colouring of the head. I have failed to find any in- 

 sect affording the above points of distinction in my collection 

 or in those of my friends. From Gyllenhal's description 

 (loc. cit.) C. Wasastjernii appears to resemble lahiatus 

 closely, being of the size of the smallest individuals of that 

 species, and to be black with two lines or spots on the fore- 

 head, the mouth, base of antennae and front legs yellowish ; the 

 words applying to sculpture of the thorax are '' suhtilissime 

 strigosOf'" which cannot, I think, be translated ^^ roughlypunc- 

 turedj^ and the striae of the elytra are mentioned as almost 

 reaching to the apex, whilst in lahiatus they become obsolete 

 at some little distance before the tip. 



It appears to have been taken very rarely in Eastern 

 Bothnia. 



50. ScYMNUs QUADRiLUNULATUS, HHg. (Coccinella) Kaf. 



Preuss. p. 416, 7; Gyll. ; Muls. Col. de Fr. Securip. 



p. 237,6; G. R. Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 2 Nov. 



1863. 

 ? colon, Steph. lUustr. Mand. iv. 393. 

 Mr. Waterhouse has introduced this species from two ex- 

 amples in Kirby's British Collection, and which are entered 

 by the latter in his Catalogue as the " Coccinella hishipustu- 

 lata" of Marsham ; the species however referred to by 

 Marsham under that name is a four-spotted variety of Scum' 

 nus frontalis, Auct. 



