28 Mr. G. Lewis on 



Coccinella lA-pustulata^ Linngeus. 

 Coccinella quatuo7-decimpustulata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 368 (1758). 



Hah. Kashlwagi, Yokohama, Fukui, Fujisan, and Sapporo. 

 Common. 



Coccinella Crotchi^ Lewis. 



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



This species does not seem to vary much in colour. 

 Hah. Oyayama, Maiyasan, Awomori, and Sapporo. 



Leis 15-maculata, Hope. 



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



Hah. Nagasaki. Two examples. Evidently confined to 

 the south of Japan. Oshima {Oherthiir). 



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. 



Anatis halonis^ sp. n. 



Breviter ovalis, supra convex a ; elytris 16-punctatis; C. ocellatce 



proxime affinis, sed pedibus robustioribus et colore dissimili. 

 Long. 8i-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 



