HIPPODAJIIA VARIEGATA, GOEZ. OBSERVATIONS ON THE TYPE. 115 



Hippodamia variegata, Goez. — Some Observations on the type 

 of this Species. 



By G. B. C. LEMAN, F.E.S. 



In the course of the preparation of a paper on this species, at the 

 suggestion of Mr. Horace St. John Donisthorpe, (which I hope to 

 publish later on), I have had occasion to look up Goeze's original 

 description of his type, and I find that the type has nine spots and 

 not thirteen spots as subsequent writers appear to have assumed. 



Goeze's original description of his type is to be found in his 

 Entom. Beijtr. i. 246 [1777J , and is as follows : — 



'•I. Zur ersten klasse : rothe oder gelbe Fliigeldecken, schwarze 

 Punkte. 

 1. Variegata, der Scheckrucken. 



Geoffr. Ins. Tom. I. 322. No. 5 [1762] . 

 La coccinelle rouge a neuf points noirs et corcelet varie. 

 Coleoptris rubris, punctis novem nigris, thorace nigro, 

 antice albo." 

 I have verified the reference to Geoffroy, and his description is as 

 follows : — 



" 5. Cocciuella coleoptris rubris punctis novem nigris, thorace 

 nigro, antice albo. 

 La coccinelle rouge a neuf points noirs et corcelet varie." 

 In 1785 Fourcroy in his Ent. Par. i. 144-5, in giving names to 

 Geoffroy's descriptions, appears to have overlooked H. varieaata, 



Goez., as he gives the name of Cocciuella carpini to Geoffroy's No. 5 : 



"5. C. carpini. 



La coccinelle rouge a 9 points noirs et corcelet varie. 



C. coleoptris rubris, punctis novem nigris, thorace nigro, 



antice albo. 

 Loc. Habitat carpinum. [Hornbeam] ." 

 and consequently C. carpini, Fourcr., is a synonym for H. variegata, 

 Goez. 



Within the limits of these preliminary observations it is not 

 possible to deal with the many individual authors who have written 

 on this species, whether under its original name, or as Coccindla or 

 Adonia, viutabilis or variegata, and I propose therefore to refer only to 

 some of the more modern writers. 



Mulsant (1846) in his Sec, pp. 39-44, Adonia mutabilis, Scriba 



the latter's description is incidentally extremely vague and difficult to 

 follow — states definitely that the "' etat normal " has 13 spots 

 arranged as follows : 1, 2, 2, 1 and -J- (the common scutellar spot), 

 and relegates the type to his var. G.£. — " L'humeral et les trois 

 derniers." 



Mulsant's references include Geoffroy's No. 5, C. carpini, Fourcr. 

 and mutabilis, Scriba, but he makes no reference to Goeze. 



In 1879 Weise in his B.-T. pp. 92-94, under Adonia variegata, 

 Goez., gives the following formula for the disposition of the spots in 

 the type : — 



" Flgd. roth, neben dem Schildschen weisslich. mit 13 

 Schwarzen P. 1, 2, 2, 1, |." 

 and includes the type as a variety under his section f. : — 

 " f. Flgd. mit 9 P. 



