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COCCINELLIDjE. 



1050. Scymnus maculosus. 



Scymnus maculosus, Woll., Cat. Can. Col. 428 (1864). 



Habitat Canarienses (in Hierro sola hand observatus), late sed parce 

 diiFustis. 



"Widely but sparingly distributed over the Canarian archipelago, 

 where there can be little doubt that it is universal though as yet 

 it does not happen to have been observed in Hierro. In Lanzarote, 

 Fuerteventura, Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and Palma I have myself 

 taken it ; and in Gomera it was found by the Messrs. Crotch. 



1051. Scymnus flavopictus. 



Scymnus flavopictus, Woll, Ins. Mad. 469, tab. x. f. 2 (1854). 

 1 Id., Cat. Can. Col. 138 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., Ilheo Chao), in inferioribus interme- 

 diisque degens. 



Closely allied to the last species, of which it may perhaps be re- 

 garded as the Madeiraii representative. In Madeira proper it is 

 decidedly rare, but on the northern Deserta (or Ilheo Chao) it is 

 comparatively common. The characters which distinguish it from 

 the S. maculosus have been alluded to, under the diagnosis of that 

 insect, in my Canarian Catalogue. 



1052. Scymnus arcuatus. 



Coccinella arcuata, Hossi, Mant. Ins. ii. 88 (1794). 

 Scymnus arcuatus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 468 (1854). 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 138 (1857). 



, Id., Cat. Can. Col. 429 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.} et Canarienses (Ten., Palma), super folia 

 plantarum praecipue in cultis inferioribus occurrens. 



The S. arcuatus of Mediterranean latitudes abounds at a low ele- 

 vation in Madeira proper occurring on the leaves of various plants, 

 particularly in gardens and other cultivated grounds. In the Cana- 

 ries it would appear however to be rare, at least so far as has been 

 observed hitherto. Indeed the only three examples which I have 

 yet seen were taken by myself two of them in TenerifFe, and the 

 third in Palma. 



1053. Scymnus minimus. 



Coccinella minima, Rossi, Mant. Ins. ii. 89 (1794). 

 Scymnus minimus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 470 (1854). 



