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COCCINELLID^E. 



1044. Coccinella genistae. 



Coccinella Genista^ Wott., Ins. Mad. 464, tab. x. f. 5 (1854). 

 , Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 136 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), rarissima ; foliis Genistce scoparice, L., 



in editioribus prsecipue gaudens. 



A beautiful little species, allied to the C. plialerata of Mediter- 

 ranean latitudes, which has been observed hitherto only in the 

 higher regions of Madeira proper, where it occurs very sparingly 

 on the Genista scoparia (or common Broom), and where it may per- 

 haps be regarded as representing the C. Miranda of the Canarian 

 Group*. 



Genus 319. SCYMNUS. 

 Kugelann, in Schneid. Mag. 515 (1794). 



1045. Scymnus marginalis. 



Coccinella marginalia, Rossi, Mant. Ins. ii. 87 (1794). 

 Scymnus marginalis, Muls., Securip. de France 244 (1846). 



. Woll, Ins. Mad. 466 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 137 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), ad folia plantarum (sc. Tamni edulis, 

 Musce sapientum et cast.) in inferioribus crescentium vulgaris. 



The European S. marginalis is common, principally at low eleva- 

 tions, in Madeira proper ; but it has not yet been observed in any 

 of the other islands. It occurs for the most part in gardens and 

 other cultivated grounds ; and I have often taken it in profusion 

 off the large leaves of the Banana and the Tamnus edulis known 

 by the English residents as the " Yam." 



1046. Scymnus durantae. 



Scymnus Durantse, Wott., Ins. Mad. 465 (1854). 

 f id., Cat. Mad. Col. 137 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), plantis diversis praecipue Durantd et 

 Hibisco in cultis gaudens. 



* In his list of a few Canarian Coleoptera which was prepared by M. Brulle 

 for MM. Webb and Berthelot's gigantic work, there is a Coccinella quoted under 

 the name of " semipustulata, Oliv." To what it can refer I have no means of 

 conjecturing ; and although in the elaborate account of it, which is contained in 

 six words " Espece du midi de 1'Europe," it is asserted to be likewise European, 

 I nevertheless do not see that any European species is acknowledged under that 

 title. Perhaps it may have represented one of the many states of the variable 

 C. Miranda ; but, happily, as the question is quite unsolvable without either a 

 diagnosis or so much as a single observation to serve as some kind of clue, it is 

 scarcely perhaps of much importance to inquire. 





