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with a short transverse thorax, and short clubbed antenne. The 
length varying in different species from hardly a sixth of an inch, as 
in the case of the pretty little lemon-yellow kind, with twenty-two 
black spots, to our largest species, the Eyed Lady-bird, which is from 
a third to nearly half an inch in length. 
The two commonest kinds are the Seven-spotted, Coccinella septem- 
punctata, and the Two-spotted, C. bipunctata; both kinds black, with 
CoccINELLA OCELLATA.—Eyed Lady-bird, natural size and magnified. 
bright red wing-cases spotted with black in the numbers conveyed by 
the names, but the bipunctata is very subject to variation in colouring. 
The Kyed Lady-bird, C. ocellata, is a very handsome insect, with 
black head varied with white markings; thorax (fore body) black, 
margined with white in front and at each side; the wing-cases reddish, 
with eight black spots ringed round with pale yellowish colour on each. 
This kind varies in its markings, and infests Fir and Pine, but Stephens 
mentions it as also found on Beech ; and the specimen figured, which 
is the only one I have received, was found on a Hop leaf belonging to 
a white bine (or old “ golding’’) growing in an old hop-yard in the 
parish of Yalding, Kent, which kind, I was informed, was peculiarly 
liable to attack of Green Fly.* Anyway, even the passing presence of 
this great kind of Lady-bird on the Hop is perhaps worth record. 
Another kind deserving a word, though not strictly a Coccinella, is 
the Minute Black Lady-bird, the Scymnus minimus of Rossi, of which 
specimens were sent me on August 5th, 1898, from Canon Court, 
Wateringbury, Kent, by Mr. Edw. Goodwin, as doing good service in 
grub state by preying on Red Spider on Hops; and it was again 
noticed to some degree in the following year. 
This very little beetle is like the common Lady-birds in shape, but 
hardly the twelfth of an inch in length, black in colour, with the 
wing-cases slightly downy. The maggots, when fully grown, are hardly 
the eighth of an inch in length, and, as seen by the naked eye, of a 
smoky grey colour; with a two-inch focus object-glass they are of a 
smoky yellowish colour, with black markings. The maggots, as well 
as the chrysalids, are similar in shape to those of the common Lady- 
bird. 
* See my ‘ Highteenth Annual Report on Injurious Insects,’ p. 72. 
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