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This species seems to come near C. Parenthesis Say, but still may be 

 distinct. 



[Considered to be a variety of HippodiVnia parenthesis Say, a species 

 not uncommon in Canada.] 



312. CocciNELLA QUiNQUE-siGNATA Kirby. — Plate vii, fig. 1. Length 

 of body 3 lines, A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



Body oblong-hemispherical, very minutely and thickly punctured ; 

 underneath black and a little downy. Head black with an acute white 

 spot in the forehead between the eyes \ antennae obscurely rufous, dusky 

 at the base and tip ; prothorax black, anterior angles and intermediate 

 streak white ; elytra tawny yellow with an abbreviated band common to 

 both at the base, an oblique discoidal abbreviated band and apical dot, 

 black ; four distant lateral triangular white spots mark the breast. 



313. CocciNFLLA (^uiNQUE-NOTATA Kirby. — Length of body 3^ 

 lines, A single specimen taken in Lat. 54^ Taken also by Dr. Bigsby 

 in Canada. 



]23i.] Very like the last, but shorter and more hemispherical. Two 

 subtriangular transverse spots between the eyes, apex of the nose, dot at 

 the sinus of the eyes, and anterior angles of the prothorax whitish-yellow ; 

 basal band of the elytra broadest at the suture, the two other black spots 

 are of equal size and placed transversely, and each lorms an abbreviated 

 band, falling far si ort of the suture and the lateral margin, so as to be 

 scarcely more than two transverse spots ; scutellar angle of the elytra 

 paler than the rest : the breast has no white spots. In other respects it 

 is exactly like C. ysignata. 



314. CocciNELLA TRicuspis Kirby. — Length of body 2% lines. 

 Several specimens taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland- 

 house. 



Body black, punctured. Head with two irregular transverse yellow 

 spots between the eyes ; antennae pale rufous, black at the tip : prothorax 

 with the anterior angles and a slender portion of the anterior margin 

 yellow, the black part fornoing a large three-lobed spot ; the middle lobe 

 being the longest and truncated, the lateral ones shorter and rounded ; 

 elytra tawny-rufous, paler and almost yellow at the base and sides, where 

 there is a black band common to both elytra not reaching the lateral 

 margin, which anteriorly has a double sinus so as to form three triangular 

 lobes or points in the band ; towards the apex of each elytrum is another 

 irregular black band, which reaches neither the suture nor the margin. 



