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OF NATURAL HISTORY. 671 



I have specimens in mj collection from remote parts of North 

 America. Dr. Harris sent it to me from Massachusetts, and Dr. 

 Melsheimerfrom near Maryland. I have found it in the North 

 West Territory, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, Florida, and 

 varieties a and /i, in Mexico. The name is taken from Melshei- 

 mer's Catalogue. 



2, C. DENTIPES Fabr. — Is common in Mexico, and I formerly 

 obtained an individual in the North "West Territory. 



3. C. CACTI Fabr. — This species occurs abundantly in Mexico • 

 it certainly resembles very closely the stigma [203] nob. so 

 common in this country, and the renipustulata Miill., of Europe • 

 but it is more than twice the size of either of those insects, and 

 may also be distinguished from the former, by the superior mag- 

 nitude of the rufous spot of which the form is transversely oval 

 whilst that of the stigma is orbicular. 



SCYMNUS Herbst. (COCCINELLA F.) 



S. TERMINATUS. — Black ; elytra, at tip yellowish. 



Inhabits Louisiana. 



Body black, polished, punctured : head honey-yellow : antennae, 

 club not much dilated, with numerous short hairs : thorax with 

 numerous short hairs : lateral margin honey-yellow : scutel acute 

 behind : elytra at tip yellowish : beneath piceous-black : pectus, 

 feet and venter behind, honey-yellow. 



Length about two-twenty-fifths of an inch. 



For this species I am indebted to Mr. Barabino. 



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