PLATE CCCLXII. 



FIG. IV. IV. V. V. 

 COCCINELLA 24-PUNCTATA. 



24-DOT RED LADY COW. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Wing-cafes red, with twenty-four black fpots. 



Coccinell A 24-PUNCTATA : coleoptris rubris : punfitis nigris vi- 



ginti quatuor. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 583. 28. — Fn. 



Suec. 487.— Gmel. Linn. Syft. Nat. 1655. 28. 

 Coccinella 24-punctata. Fabr. Syjl. Frit. 84. 33. — Spec. 



Inf. 7. 101. 47 .—Mant. I. 59. 66.— Ent. Syft. 



I. p. 1.281.72. 



Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 159. fp. 26. 



Panz. Ent. Germ. 142. 37- 

 La Coccinelle rayee, Geojfr. Inf. I. 326. n. 11 . 



Degeer Inf. V. 381. 14. 



Two diftincl; varieties of this variable fpecies are figured in our 

 plate, fig 4 and 5, one of which has the black dorfal dots of a fmall 

 fize, the other large. This fpecies is commonly found on flowers. 



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