208 
This and the three preceding species of Scymnus were found by 
general sweeping and beating. 
SCYMNUS XERAMPELINUS Muls., Opusc. IIT, p. 149 ; Crotch, Rev. 
Coccin., p. 256. 
« Ovale; pubescent ; d’un roux livide ou testacé en dessus, d’une 
teinte un peu moins claire en dessous. Plaques abdominales prolon- 
gées jusqu'aux trois quarts ou quatre cinquièmes de l’arceau. 
Long. 3/41. » 
Hab. Inpra (Deyrolle). Type, Crotch coll. 
Belgaum (Andrewes). 
À species of Scymnus, obtained by M. Andrewes at Belgaum, 
does not disagree to any great extent from the single example in 
Crotch’s coll. ticketed « Type ». Our insect is rather larger, and of a 
darker brown, it is rather densely pubescent and unicolorous, rather 
wide, of the same form as the species here described as #'. ephip- 
pialus. 
Nothing short of a full observation of the habits of life, with 
carefully set specimens, will enable any one to arrive at any cer- 
tainty about these insects. 
I do not consider the character drawn from the « plaques abdomi- 
nales » as of any value whatever. 
Scymnus? flavoguttatus n. sp. 
Orbicularis, rufo-piceus, breviler pilosus, nitidus ; capitis late- 
ribus, prothoracis maculis tribus basalibus, elytrorumque maculis 
tribus in singulis albido-flavis. — Long. 3 mm. 
Hab. InpiA, Belgaum (Andrewes). 
Rather oblong, or very broadly elliptical, the prothorax nearly 
as wide as the elytra at their base, it's sides rounded a little, and 
the sides of the elytra widening evenly from the humeral angle so 
as not to form one continuousoutline with the thorax.The margins 
of neither thorax nor elytra reflexed; punctuation scarcely visible. 
The head has a whitish-yvellow spot on each side above the eyes, 
and the thorax has three basal whitish-yellow spots, the middle 
one produced forwards as a central line. The three elytral spots 
consist of two transversely about the middle (one on the margin) 
and one before the apex. 
This is probably not a true Scymnus, but I cannot refer it to 
any other genus. Two specimens of this insect, were found living 
in amity with red ants in a hole in a Kindali tree, Z'erminalia 
paniculala W. et A. 
