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Coccinella 14-pustulata, Linnaeus. 

 Coccinella quatiiordecimpastulata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 368 (1758). 



Hab. Kashiwagi, Yokohama, Fukui, Fujisan, and Sapporo. 

 Common. 



Coccinella Crotcki, Lewis. 

 Coccinella Crotchi, Lew. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 466 (1879). 

 This species does not seem to vary much in colour. 

 Hab. Oyayama, Maiyasan, Awomori, and Sapporo. 



Leis 15-maculata, Hope. 

 Coccinella quindecimmaculata, Hope, Zool. Misc. p. 30 (1831). 



Hab. Nagasaki. Two examples. Evidently confined to 

 the south of Japan. Oshima (Oberthiir). 



Ptychantis axyridis, Pallas. 

 Coccinella axyridis, Pall. Iter. iii. p. 29 (1773). 



The synonymy set forth by Crotch and Harold does not 

 quite agree, and so probably requires adjustment. It con- 

 sists of eighteen to twenty names. 



Hab. All the islands and in China. Late in autumn, when 

 this species assembles for hibernation, it may be seen congre- 

 gating in countless multitudes. I saw it assemble in Kiu 

 Kiang in 1863, its vast numbers filling the crevices of the 

 large pagoda near the river. In 1880 I saw a similar multi- 

 tude at Nikko lining the shutters of a house. The most 

 dissimilar looking individuals I found in cop. 



Breviter ovalis, supra convexa ; elytris 16-punctatis; C. ocellata>, 



proxime affinis, sed pedibus robustioribus et colore dissimili. 

 Long. 8±-9 mill. 



Shortly oval, convex, shining ; body beneath black, ventral 

 segments sometimes laterally pale ; the head with somewhat 

 acinaciform punctures, black, with a yellow spot on the inner 

 edge of the eye and a smaller pale spot within the anterior 

 ocular emargination ; the thorax distinctly and densely punc- 

 tulate, with the lateral rim best-marked at the base, anteriorly 

 the rim is very feeble, pale yellow, with an irregular M-shaped 

 mark in the middle, and exterior to it on either side before the 

 posterior angles is an isolated black dot ; the scutellum red 

 or black; the elytra, the spots are similar in position to those 



