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town, flying over lucern fields on sunny days in August. 

 Electra has been taken at Henfield. A number of Deilephila 

 Galii have been bred here this summer from larvae. 

 Brighton. 1835. J. G. B. 



5. Characters of two undescribed British Coleoptera. — 



Abdera, Stephens. 



Abdera picea. Picea, Abifasciata et quadrifasciata anguslior, 

 antennis basi, pedibus thoracisque margina fulvis. 



Picea, nitens, subtilissime punctata, fere glabra : oculi nigro-picei : 

 thorax fulvus ; discus piceus: antennae fuscae, basi fulvae : pedes 

 fulvi. (Corp. long. lin. 1-|.) 



Found near London. 



Orchesia, Latreille. 



Orchesia minor. O. micante multo minor, antenna graciliores, 

 pedes obscuriores, thoracis fovece optime determinate. 



O. micantis forma et colore, fusco-picea, sericeo-pubescens ; sub- 

 tilissime punctatus : caput, thorax, pectus, abdomen et pedes 

 picea : palpi ferruginei : antennae graciles, subclavatae, obscure 

 piceae, basi et subtus ferrugineae. (Corp. long. lin. lg.) 



Found at New Lanark, Scotland. In the cabinet of the 

 Entomological Club. F. Walker. 



6. A Species of Coccinella new to Britain. C. M. -nigrum of 

 Fabricius. — The entire upper surface testaceous, occasionally 

 varying, probably in immature specimens, to a dirty white ; the 

 eyes and divers spots on the head varying in different speci- 

 mens, nearly black : prothorax, dirty white, with an undulated 

 black line in the form of a W, the component parts of the W 

 sometimes wanting connexion : elytra testaceous, the hue ex- 

 ceedingly variable in different specimens; each has on the disc a 

 dark longitudinal line, frequently interrupted in the middle ; 

 this line in many specimens is totally wanting. The under 

 surface is dark brown, anteriorly approaching to black: the 

 legs are entirely pale. The size is precisely that of C. variabilis, 

 but the form more oblong. 



Beaten in some abundance from the larch on Lady Rodney's 



