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distinctly bifid, with two other basal spots, the central spots confluent 

 and two more spots in the apical region. This interesting specimen 

 the late Mr. W. J. Ashdown identified as an aberration of A. 

 hipunctata, and as he was unable to find in his large collection of 

 Cocdnellidae an exact replica, my specimen is possibly unique, and as 

 such worth recording. 



I have also submitted this specimen to Mr. Donisthorpe, and as he 

 considers it worth naming, and in fact first noticed it among my 

 Coccinellidae, I should like to associate his name with it, and with his 

 consent propose to name it : — 



ab. donisthorpei, n.ab. (see plate v., fig. 8). 



7. In April last in Trent Wood (a few miles out of Droitwich. 

 Worcs.) I took in decayed leaves in an oak wood at the foot of an oak 

 stump a solitary specimen oi Anatisocellata, L!~, which Mr. Donisthorpe 

 tells me is a new locality for this species. 



8. It may be worth recording that on September 13th last I also 

 took by beating an entirely black specimen of Chilochorus bipustnlatus, 

 L., on pine at Oxshott, and on the same day and place single specimens 

 of ab. 9-punctata and ab. cakiles of C. 11-pimctata. 



The Myrmecophilous Lady=Bird, Coccinella distiticta, Fald., its 

 Life History and Association with Ants. 



By HORACE DONISTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S., etc. 

 Coccinella distincta, Fald. 



Coccinella distincta, Faldermann Notiv. i\Jeiu. Mosc. 5 404 (1837).^ 

 Cuccinella niaf/nijica, Eedtenbacher Tentamen Pseudotr. 24 (1843).^ 

 Coccinella septeni punctata, Mannerheim Bidl.' Mosc. 1 87 (1848)° [?] . 

 Coccinella labilis, Mulsant Sec. 84-86 (1846)^; Newman Zool. 5 

 1864 (1847)^ Stephens Zool. 5 1866 (1847)''; Mulsant Species 1020 

 (1851)^ Sharp Proc. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1863 168«; Champion Ent. Mo. 

 Mar/. 4 187 (1868)^ 5 45 (1868)i°; Eye Ent. Ann. 1869 8": 1870 

 40^'\ Coccinella distincta, Rosenhauer Stet. Ent. Zeit. 53, 166 (1882)^°; 

 Sharp Cat. Brit. Col. 2nd edtn., 22 (1888)". Coccinella labilis, Col- 

 l^ii, Ent. Mo. Mac/. 20 226 (1884)i^ Wood, Ent. Mo. Mag. 22 163 

 (1885)i« ; Morris Ent. Mo. Mag. 25 36 (1888)". Coccinella distincta 

 Fowler Col. Brit. Isles 3 165 (1889)i»; Donisthorpe Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 31 99 (1895)1^ : 32 45 (1896)-'^«; ^Silker Ent. Mo. Mac/. 33 175 (1897)'^; 

 Donisthorpe Ent. Rec. 9 247 (1897)^'-; Ganglbauer Kdfer Mitt. 3 

 1007 (1899)-^ Donisthorpe Ent. Bee. 12 178 {l^OOf: Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1901 367-': Travis. Leicester Lit.-Phil. Soc. 6 226 (1902)2« : Ent. 

 Rec. 15 12 (1903)'^'; Champion Ent. Mo. Mag. 39 151 (1903)-^'; 

 Donisthorpe, Ent. Mo. Mag. 39 206 (1903)^9 ; Vic. Hist. Sussex 1 149 

 (1905)=*°; Donisthorpe Proc. Lancs.-Chesh. Ent. Soc. 1905 37 4:S'^ 

 Eur. Cat. Col. 368 (1906)82; Donisthorpe Ent. Rec. 20 283 (1908)°« 

 Zool. 446 (1909)8^ ; Wasmann Zeit. Wissens Zool. 101 112 (1912)8' 

 Fowler and Donisthorpe Col. Brit. Isles 6 (Strpjd.) 254, 326, 329 

 (19r3)3« ; Donisthorpe Ent. Rec. 26 42 (1914)^^ : 28 85 (1916)8« : 31 22 

 (1919)8^ : Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. Eead 7 v. 19^° : Eead 4 vi. 19«. 



Coccinella distincta, Fald., subsp. labilis, Muls., ab. domiduca, Weise. 

 Coccinella septempunctata, var. •^., Stephens Mand., ^t 380 (1881)* 2. 



