371 
Notes on Coccinellidae. 
BY D. T. FULLAWAY. 
(Presented at the meeting of March 1, 1923.) 
Curinus coeruleus (Muls.). 
Mulsant Spee., p. 472. 
DESCRIPTION OF IMMATURE STAGES. 
Egg. Deposited in clusters of from one to two dozen eggs. Individual 
eggs cylindrical, tapering at the ends, exceeding 1 mm. in length, pearly 
white, smooth, although microscopically sculptured, micropylar end rough- 
ened by the presence of numerous minute granular papillae in a circular 
area about the opening, attached by an adhesive fluid at opposite end, but 
seldom erect, usually procumbent. 
Larva. Eight mm. long, 3 mm. wide at middle, tapering to both ends, 
moderately convex, integument finely reticuately rugose; head small, roughly 
rectangular, a little longer than wide (dorsal view), fairly smooth, black, 
with a few seattered pale hairs; ocelli three on either side of the head, 
near antero-lateral angle, directly behind antennae, which are short and 
three-segmented; the maxillary palpi are considerably larger and three- 
segmented also; the labial palpi two-segmented. Prothorax much larger 
than head, roughly triangular in outline (dorsal view), creamy white, the 
cervical shield brownish, bisected by a median longitudinal white vitta, 
each half with a black border except for a short distance on posterior 
margin and with two black spinous tubercles bearing many black spinous 
hairs situated midway on outer lateral margin; many black spinous hairs 
on the flat plates. Mesothorax, metathorax and ten abdominal segments 
transverse, mesonotum and metanotum with four, abdominal tergites, 
except the last two, with six longitudinal rows of large black spinous 
tubercles bearing black spinous hairs. These are disposed with reference 
to individual nota as follows: On the mesonotum two outer (pleural) and 
two inner (lateral) tubercles on either side, the former widely separate, 
the latter close together and with a brown spot bordered with black at 
the base on the inner side; metanotum with two outer (pleural) and one 
inner (lateral) tubercle, the large oval basal spot entirely black; abdomi- 
nal tergites with one pleural, one lateral and one dorsal tuberele on either 
side. There is a conspicuous submarginal crease or depression on either 
side between the lines of lateral and pleural tubercles. There are also 
seattered black spinous hairs medially on the mesothorax and metathorax, 
and laterally on the abdominal segments, a median single and lateral 
double row of small black depressed tubercles on the abdominal tergites, 
and spiracular openings in the intersegmental folds at the anterior mar- 
gins of the first six abdominal segments, between dorsal and lateral tuber- 
cles, and on pronotum at base of anterior of the two pleural tubercles on 

Proce. Haw. Ent. Soe., V, No. 3, December, 1924. 
