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a. Form shorter and les.s naiiowed 



behind. Insect more shiny . . 0. particeps, Mus. 



b. Form longer and more narrowed 

 behind. Insect less shiny, striie 



more apparent . . . .0. affinis, Sturm. 



ii. Size very small (1 mm.) ; thorax and 



elytra entirely black . . . .0. pygm^us, Sturm. 



O. flavicornis, Sturm, was described by Sturm as a variety of 

 0. bicolor, but is regarded as a good species by Ganglbauer and others ; 

 it is of about the size of 0. Uquichis or rather longer. Mr. Champion 

 took one specimen (recorded as 0. helveticus, Rye) at Caterham and 

 subsequently others in the same locality; he has also found it at 

 Sandown, I. of W. INIr. Newbery has taken it at Dover and Mr. Elliman 

 at Chesham (Bucks). The late Mr. Chitty took it in some numbers at 

 St. Margaret's Bay. 



O. affinis, Sturm. This species, which I have not included in my 

 previous list (Brit. Col. iii. 150), is longer and less metallic as com- 

 pared with 0. partke'ps, and usually of a paler colour. It has been 

 taken at Hythe, Hants, and at Lyndhurst by Mr. Newbery, and, 

 apparently, by Mr. Champion in the New Forest. 



j\Ir. Newbery allows that the sepai-ation of 0. particeps and 

 0. affinis (which I placed together as far as British specimens were 

 concerned) is a matter of great difficulty ; Mr. Newbery says that this 

 is in a measure due to foreign authors having placed 0. particeps 

 among the species with entirely black elytra ; as a rule they are 

 almost, if not always, inclined to brown, at all events at apex. They 

 are, however, so close as to be hardly distinct. The species has been 

 taken by Mr. Keys near Whitsand Bay, Plymouth, and by Mr. Elliman 

 at Chesham. 



COCCINELLIDiE. 



ADOPJIA, Mulsant. 

 A. (Hippodamia) variegata, Goeze, var. engleharti, Rye 



(Ent. Record, iv. 18'J3, 243). This variety, described by B. G. Rye, 

 and figured in the Transactions of the Leicester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, is only a form of the type and hardly a variety 

 at all. 



COCCINELLA, Linne. 



C. lO-punctata, L., var. confluens, Haworth (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., 1807, 278). This variety has the spots on the thorax confluent, 

 and the three central spots on the elytra confluent in a large lobed 

 patch with a red spot in the centre. 



Taken by Donisthorpe in Darenth Wood. Apparently very seldom 

 met with (Ent. Record, xxi. 1909, loG). 



C. 11-punctata, L., var. confluens, Donis. (Ent. Rec. 1902, 

 p. 99). This form has the lower pairs of spots on each elytron 



