122 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
The following list gives the original description of all the sub- 
species and aberrations of Coccinella 11-punctata known to me. 
The aberrations appear to be rare, and are usually only found 
singly. There are very few examples of such forms in the series of 
this insect in the general collection at the Natural History Museum, 
and none in the British collection. Some, however, may be repre- 
sented in private collections belonging to British Coleopterists ; as is 
the case in my own. I give the British records in all such cases as I 
am aware of, and perhaps if our Coleopterists will examine their series 
they will be ‘able to add further instances. 
Let us state here that it is much clearer, and much shorter and 
less cumbersome, to say Coccinella 11-punctata boreolitoralis than to be 
obliged to put ‘the brightly coloured race of Coccinella 11-punctata 
with spots two and three, and four and five, on the elytra large and 
confluent, which is found in the north, in Iceland, Scotland and 
Ireland, on sand-hills in restricted areas by the sea,’ and Coccinella 
11-punctata ab. confluens, instead of “the variety of Coccinella 11- 
punctata with the spots two and three on the elytra confluent.” ! 
I have to thank Dr. Chapman and Lord Rothschild for kindly 
allowing me to quote their views, and Dr. Sharp for kindly lending me 
his copy of the Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europiéischen Coleoptera, ii.- 
Heft. Coccinellidae ii. (J. Weise), 1885; which I was unable to find in 
any other library. 
Coccinella 11-punctata L., Syst. Nat., 10th edtn. 14, 3866 
(1758). 
‘«11-punctata, 11 C. coleoptris rubris : punctis nigris undecim. 
Faun Svec., 394. 
Merian europ., 168. 
Habitat in Buropa.”’ 
This species occurs in Europe, N. Africa, Asia, N. America to 
California ; chiefly in the neighbourhood of the sea. 
It is generally distributed and common in the British Isles. 
Coccinella 11- poe L., ab. pura Weise, Bestimmungs- 
Tabellen, Hur. Col., 29 (1885). 
‘*(b) Fld. einfarbig roth—vy. pura Ws.” 
Coccinella 11-punctata L., ab. tripunctata L., l.c. 365. 
‘«3-punctata. 3. C. coleoptris rubris: punctis nigris tribus. 
Habitat in Europa. 
Puncta duo ad apicem coleoptrorum.”’ 
Coccinelia 114-punctata L., ab. 4-maculata F., Mant. Ins., 1, 
56 (1787). 
‘4 maculata. 30. C. coleoptris rubris: punctis quatuor baseos nigris, thorace 
atro: macula marginali aiba. 
Differt manifeste a C. 4-punctata. Caput nigrum punctis duobus baseos 
pallidis. Thorax niger, nitidus macula marginali, magna, alba. 
Elytra rubra punctis duobus 1.1. nigris. Corpus nigrum. 
Habitat Halae Saxonum, Dom. Hybner.” 
Weise [l.c. 110 (1879)] gives the formula for this aberration “P. 
3, 5, 4”; and Ganglbauer [Kafer Mitteleuropa, 8, 1008 (1899)] 
