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removed from the genus. Following Jacoby I have referred the 
present insect to Candezea on account of its epipleure being very 
manifestly (not excessively narrowly) continued nearly to the 
apex of the elytra, but a casual glance would unhesitatingly 
place it in Monolepta of which it has entirely the facies. The 
blackish spot occupies nearly tue entire apical-half of each 
elytron, scarcely reaching the suture, being very distinctly 
separated from the lateral margin and divided from the apex by 
a space nearly equal to a quarter of its own length. The anterior 
coxie are quite closed posteriorly. 
N.S. Wales ; taken by Mr. Lea. 
COCCINELLIDZ. 
CG@LOPHORA. 
C. gratiosa, Muls. Mr. Keebele has sent me a remarkable 
series of specimens which must, I think, be attributed to this 
species. He writes that he is confident they must all be regarded 
as conspecific, nearly all having been bred from one batch of 
similar pup found on a single orange tree. J am disposed to 
think he is right, although if it be so C. gratiosa is one of the 
most variable of the Coccinellide. I can find no characters to 
distribute the examples before me, except in respect of color and 
markings, but these vary to an almost incredible extent, scarcely 
any two of them being alike. One specimen among them agrees 
very well with the description of C. gratiosa except in most of 
the yellow portions being of a pale (almost whitish) yellow color, 
but in other specimens (which, however, vary in other respects 
from the description) of the series the yellow color is as Mulsant 
characterises it. The following is a description of the markings 
on the example that I regard as almost typical :—Head bright 
yellow with a continuous black border along the front of the 
clypeus and running back on either side so as to touch the post- 
ocular sinuosity to the middle of the lateral edge, the hinder 
half of the lateral edge and the whole of the base being black 
[there is a narrow yellow line along the front of the prothorax 
not mentioned in the description, but this is wanting in others 
of the series]; scutellum black ; elytra whitish-yellow with all 
their margins narrowly black and a very wide black fascia 
occupying nearly the middle half of their length, this fascia 
being angularly produced on its front margin on the disc of each 
elytron and on its hindmargin correspondingly emarginate, the 
sutural black border being dilated from the scutellum to the 
fascia in such manner as to present the appearance of a triangle 
whose apex touches the scutellum while its base is merged in the 
fascia. : 
Regarding the specimen I have described as the type, the next 
