the Coccinellidae of Japan. 31 



and Crotch, apparently overlooking Solsky's paper, founded 

 the genus Aiolocaria to receive it. I have examined Hope's 

 types of CoccineUa hexaspilota in the British Museum and 

 some other Indian specimens similar in colour ; but they 

 appear so different to the Siberian and Japanese specimens 

 (to which Hope's name is not appropriate), that I am reluctant 

 to follow authors who consider the names synonymous. I 

 have two specimens with the elytra entirely black and one 

 with black elytra and a small red humeral spot. For the 

 first variety the name of nigra has been recently suggested 

 by a continental author; nigripennis would have been a 

 better name. 



Hah. Sannohe", Morioka, Sendai, and Shirakawa. Seen 

 continuously in great multitudes in October on telegraph-posts 

 during two days' travel. Now and then I stopped to look 

 for varieties, but found only two specimens with the elytra 

 entirely black. 



Chilomenes 4-pIagiata, Schonherr. 



Chilomenes quadriplagiata, Schon. Syn. Ins. ii. p. 195 (1808). 



Hab. Nagasaki and Kobe. Also China, Manchuria, India, 

 Celebes, and Australia {Crotch). 



Chilocorus rubidus, Hope. 

 Chilocorus rubidus, Hope, Gray, Zoul. Misc. p. 31 (1831). 



In my former list this species stood as C. tristis, a varietal 

 name of Faldermann's, 1835. Some of my specimens are 

 wholly reddish brown, others are black with a well-defined 

 discal red blotch on eacli elytron ; Crotch noticed this pecu- 

 liarity. 



Hub. Nagasaki and Yokohama. Siberia and China. 



Chilocorus similis, Rossi. 

 CoccineUa similis, Ross. Faun. Etr. i. p. 68, t. vii. fig. 4 (1790). 



Crotch (p. 185 of his 'Revision') apparently overlooked 

 Rossi's name, and employed Scriba's name of C. rempustu- 

 latus, which is two years later. Crotch says (Revis. p. 185) 

 that the Japanese " specimens are exactly like C. bivulnerus, 

 Muls., in the round punctiform dot exhibiting no trace of 

 any transverse tendency." 



Hab. Yokohama and other places. Common. 



