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Scymnus picescens n. sp. 
Scymni nubili, guoad formam el staluram summa similitudine, 
piceus, nilidus, creberrime fortiter punclatus, pube brevi grisea 
parcius veslitus, pedibus concoloribus, femoribus interdum dilu- 
lioribus. — Long. 1,25 millim. 
ab. : Inpra, Belgaum (Andrewes). 
I should hardly have considered this distinct from the species 
referred to S. nubilus, but that the punctuation seems a little 
stronger, and the upper surface more shining, being less pubescent. 
Colour distinction alone seems hardly worth considering in these 
obscure species of Scymnus, but apart from it there is so little to 
go by, that it is perhaps as well to separate them provisionally. 
SCYMNUS GUIMETI Muls., Spec. Col. Trim. secur., p. 979. 
Hab. INpra, Belgaum (Andrewes). 
Four examples of a Scymnus allied to S'. nubilus but having a 
transverse dark fascia common to the elytra a little behind the 
middle, and with the external margin and suture also dark, may 
be temporarily referred to this insect. But when Mulsant thought 
it worth while to describe an obscure Scymnus, of which the only 
locality given is « les parties orientales de l'Asie ? ». It seems 
frivolous to suppose that any positive identification can ever be 
made ; and I feel that if possible such a name should be suppressed. 
It was at least an equivocal mode of immortalising the name of the 
«inventeur du Blea Guimet » ! Mulsant, loc. cit. 
Scymnus ephippiatus n. sp. 
S. nubili &erum slalura, at magis orbicularis, vix punctalus, 
pubescens, ferrugineus; prothoracis elytrorumque disco commu- 
noëgr migro. — Long. 1,5 millim. 
Hüb. Inxnia, Belgaum (Andrewes), Kanara (Bell). 
Wider and more orbicular than #. nubilus and with the excep- 
tion of the central part of the thorax, and a large discoidal patch 
on the elytra as wide on their bases as the thoracic mark, and 
leaving the lateral and apical margins widely rusty-red, The whole 
of the insect is ferruginous, but in some examples the breast, is 
black, and in several which are less mature the black parts are 
only pitchy. The legs appear to be always rusty-red. The pubescence 
is greyish with a golden and silky appearance. When the pubes- 
cence is worn off, the punctuation is seen to be slightly serial near 
the suture at the base, but is very fine and close. Some examples 
from Belgaum have the elytra pitchy, but there is a more or less 
distinctly darker indication of the patch; and the broader form will 
distinguish this insect from its allies. 
