PLATE CCCLXII. 7 



Linnaeus, and after him Fabricius, and feveral other writers, 

 defcribe this infect as having the fuperior furface yellow with black 

 fpots. This is commonly the colour, but it alio occurs pretty fre- 

 quently of a reddifli as well as yellow colour, and even fometimes 

 assumes a vermillion tint as brilliant as the common Lady Cow. 

 Coccinella feptem-punclata. Geoffroy defcribes it as being of a red co- 

 lour. This kind is found among plants ; is faid to inhabit Armoracia. 



FIG. III. 

 COCCINELLA SEPTEM-NOTATA. 



SEVEN-DOT RED LADY COW. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Oblong : wing cafes red with feven black fpots on each : margin 

 of the thorax and two dots white. 



Coccinella 7-notata: oblonga coleoptris rubris: pun6lis fep- 

 tem nigris, thoracis margine puntftifque duobus 

 albis. Fabr. Ent. Si/ft. I. p. 1. 275. 43. 

 Panz. Faun. Germ. 187. 20. 

 Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. p. 1.53. fp. 11. 



Coccinella mutabilis. Payk. Faun. Snec. 2. 39. 40. 



Coccinella constellata. Lakh. 121.6. 



An elegant fpecies, and not very common. Its habitat unknown. 

 This infect is evidently different from the Linnaean Coccinella 7 -punc- 

 tata, already figured in this work*, but to which it bears a remote 

 refemblance. 



* Brit Inf. PI. 39. f. 5. 



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