6 PLATE CCCLXII. 



This appears on the credit of moft writers to be a rare infect. 

 Our fpecimen was taken in Kent. It is faid to inhabit the Pine, Pi- 



nus fylvestris. 



We fhould in particular obferve that the prevailing or ground co- 

 lour of the wing-cafes and thorax in our fpecimen is not red as the 

 fpecies is ufually defci ibed, but rather of a light or teftaceous brown, 

 at the fame time that its variegations of white marks and fpots agree 

 with the Linnajan description of the infect. 



The fmaller infeft at Figure I. is of the natural fize. 



FIG. II. II. 

 COCCINELLA TREDECIM-PUNCTATA 



13-DOT LADY COW. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shells yellow, or red, with thirteen black dots ; body oblong. 



Coccinella 13-Punctata : coleoptris luteis: punftis nigris 

 tredecim, corpore oblongo. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 

 582. 20. — Fn. Suec. 481.— Gmel. Linn. Syjl. 

 Nat. 1653. 20.— Fabr. Syjl. Ent. 83. 25.—- 

 Spec. Inf. I. 99- 3S.—Mant. I. 58. 54.— Ent. 

 Syjl. I. p. I. 279. Ql.—Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 

 p. 156. fp. 19- — Panz. Ent. Germ. 139- 27. — 

 Degeer. V. 375. 9- 



La coccinelle rouge a treize points noir, et corcelet rouge a bande, 



Geojfr.'Inf.i.p.824:fp.7. 



Linnaeus, 



