124 Mr. G. C. Champion’s Notes on 
the metathoracic epimera; epipleura slightly depressed for the 
reception of the tips of the intermediate and posterior femora. 
Length 14 mm. 
Hab. Mexico, Motzorongo (Flohr), Cordova (Hége). 
Three specimens, all from the State of Vera Cruz. A 
minute convex form, with unusually coarsely punctate 
elytra, a rugose metasternum, a narrow apical joint to 
the maxillary palpi, and semicircular coxal fossettes on 
the first ventral segment. This species belongs to the 
subgenus Pullus, Muls., following the arrangement adopted 
by Gorham, and it is allied to his S. granum, from which 
it differs in the very coarsely punctate elytra. 
*Scymnus caeruleicollis, n. sp. 
Broad ovate, short, convex, glabrous above, shining, the head and 
thorax blue, the scutellum and elytra cupreo-aeneous, the body 
beneath black, the labrum, mouth-parts, antennae, under sur- 
face of the head, and legs testaceous, the femora slightly infuscate, 
Head and thorax very closely, the elytra more sparsely, punctulate ; 
maxillary palpi stout, short, the last joint obliquely subsecuriform ; 
eyes depressed, large, vertical as seen from in front. Beneath 
sparsely, finely punctate; anterior coxae very widely separated ; 
coxal lines sharply-defined, that of the metasternum curving out- 
wards and forwards just behind the coxae to the episternal suture, 
that of the first ventral segment running obliquely to the outer 
apical angle; epipleura excavate for the reception of the tips of 
the intermediate and posterior femora. Legs short, tarsi rather 
stout. F 
Length 13-1,%, mm. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Tolé, Pena Blanca 
(Champion). 
Four specimens. The metallic, glabrous upper surface 
and large eyes are characters foreign to Scymnus, as 
generally understood, but the present species can quite 
well be included in that genus till the allied forms are 
properly studied. It would be out of place amongst the 
heterogeneous Coccinellids referred by Gorham to Neaporva. 
*Scymnus quercicola, n. sp. 
Short ovate, convex, glabrous above, shining, black, the antennae 
testaceous at the base, the tibiae and tarsi piceous; the entire upper 
surface rather closely, minutely punctulate. Last joint of the 
maxillary palpi elongate, narrow, cultriform, Antennal club oblong- 
