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rather slenderer. In its markings it is, like most of the CoccineJUdce, 

 extremely variable ; but normally it may be described as having its 

 prothorax (which is more constant than the elytra) nan-owly edged 

 along its front and lateral margins with pale straw-yellow, of which 

 colour there is a larger subquadrate spot (confluent with the border) 

 at each anterior angle. The elytra are yellow, with a long hastate 

 strij)e doAvn the suture (reaching from the scutellum, where it is broad, 

 and gradually narrowing to almost the extreme apex) and two arcu- 

 ated ones on each elytron (one of which is longitudinal and down 

 the fore disc, whilst the other is transverse and placed between the 

 hinder disc and the apex) black. And there is frequently a small, 

 additional, sublateral dash about the middle of the outer edge of the 

 anterior curved band. 



The C. Miranda is widely spread over the archipelago, where 

 (though we did not happen to observe it in Hierro) it is almost cer- 

 tainly universal throughout at any rate the central and western 

 islands. ' It occurs at intermediate and lofty elevations, and is. per- 

 haps more abundant in the latter than in the former — ascending to 

 an altitude of at least 9000 feet above the sea. I have taken it on 

 the hills above San Mateo, on the ascent to the Roca del Soucilho, 

 in Grand Canary ; from the blossoms of the Retama on the lofty 

 Cumbre, of Teneriffe, above Ycod el Alto and adjoining the Caiiadas, 

 as well as on the opposite Cumbre above the Agua Mansa and at the 

 Agua Mansa itself; and in the Barranco above S*'"" Cruz in Palma. 

 It was first detected by Mr. Gray, who met with three specimens of 

 it in the valley above San Sebastian, in Gomera, during our short 

 visit to that island in his yacht " the Miranda " early in February of 

 1858; and I am glad to commemorate our pleasant sojourn in that 

 admirable little vessel by the adoption of the above specific name. 

 Mr. Gray likewise captured it, a short time afterwards, in Palma ; 

 and it has subsequently been found in that island, Gomera, and Tene- 

 riffe by Dr. Crotch. 



649. Coccinella Doublieri. 



Harmonia Doublieri, Muls., Securi]). de France, 118 (1846). 



Habitat Fuerteventuram, in foliis Tamaricis galUcoi deprehensa. 



Although I have no type for comparison, I have little doubt, 

 judging from the description, that the present small Coccinella is 

 conspecific with Mulsant's C. Doublieri, which is said to occur on 

 Tamarisks in the south of France. The only Canarian examples 

 (thirteen in number) which I have seen were captured by myself 



