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PLATE CCCCXXVIII, 



COCCINELLA 13-MACULATA, 



13-SPOT LADY COW. 

 COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clavated, club folid : anterior feelers femicordated : thorax 

 and wing-cafes margined: body hemifpherical : abdomen beneath 

 flat, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Wing-cafes yellow, with thirteen black dots : body orbicular. 



Coccinella 13-maculata : coleoptris flavis : pun&is nigris 

 tredecim corpore orbiculato. Marjh. Ent. Brit. 

 T. I. 157. Fabr. Syft. Ent. 83.24,— Sp. Inf. I, 

 99- 37.— Mant. I. 58. 53.— Ent. Syft. I. a, 

 279- 60. 

 Gmel. 1652. 90. 



Three varieties of this elegant fpecies of Coccinella are figured on 

 the fame plate, two of which differ only in colour, the third in the 

 dots on the wing-cafes. The thorax in all the fpecimens are pale 



yellow, 



