ABERRATIONS OF COCOINELLA, 127 
Coccinella 11-punctata L., ab. tamaricis Weise, l.c. 
‘‘Normalfarbung. 
f. P. 4und 5 bilden eine Querbinde . . . . v. tamaricis.’’ 
Coccinella 11-punctata L., ab. ocellata Churcheville, Mis. 
Ent. Rev. Ent. Int., 8, 26 (1900). The European Catalogue gives the 
date incorrectly as “1901.” 
*¢ Thorax noire avec une tache flave subtriangulaire aux angles anieneure: 
Elytres rouges, marquées de 11 points noirs ocellés de jaunatre: disposés 1, 2, 2, 4; 
dimension 4. Cette forme différe doncdu type par les ocellations des aay 
lesquelles lui donnent un aspect fort agréable. 
Nous avons capturé cette belle variété sur un Ulex, commune de Bignon (Loire- 
Inférieure). 
I saw a specimen of this pretty aberration at Barton Mills, on 
October 6th, 1917, which had just been taken by beating young Scots 
firs. 
Coccinella 11-punctata L., ab. brevifasciata Weise, l.c., 111. 
The European Catalogue gives the page as “24.” 
‘* Normalfarbung. 
§. P,2+38,4+ 5breit verbunden . . . . v. brevifasciata.”’ 
In 1885 Weise [l.c. p. 30 (1885)] endeavoured to include his abs. 
longula (which as has been shown is asynonym of Haworth’s confluens) 
and tamaricis, with his ab. brevifasciata. 
This form is evidently only an aberration, found with the type, of 
the normal colour, etc. It is evidently the var. 5 (var. 6. Syst. Cat.) of 
Stephens [Man 4, 368 (1831)], and the var. G. of Mulsant [Sécuri- 
palpes, 75 (1846)]. Had it been a highly coloured local race found on 
sand-hills near the sea, Weise, Stephens, and Mulsant, would have 
stated the fact. Rye [Trans. Leicester Lit. Phil. Soc., 8, 481 (1895)] 
records a specimen from Swanage of a form of C.11-punctata with “ the 
spots on disc of elytra confluent,’ and I took it near Millwall Docks on 
July 4th, 1893, when the type was very common. 
Coccinella 414-punctata L., ab. nigrofasciata Rossi, [avn. 
Etrusca, 1, 62 (1790). 
‘¢ Coleoptris rubris, punctis nigris octo; fascia mediaatra. Ommnino simillima 
antecedenti. Differf tantum quod habet ulterius fasciam atram, flexuosam in 
medio elytrorum a puncto communi baseos enatam.”’ 
Hdwards (l.c.) states—‘‘ Some specimens of (. 11-punctata from 
Renyyle, co. Galway, given to me by the late Canon Cruttwell, belong 
to var. nigrofasciata Rossi (2+8+4, 4+5).” It is probable that 
Cruttwell took these specimens in company with my subsp. boreolito- 
ralis (confluens Donis., 1902), in which case they would be an aberration 
of my subspecies. 
Edwards’ formula, however, does not agree with Rossi’s descerip- 
tion, which, as correctly stated by Ganglbauer, has spots 4 and 3 
united. 
Coccinella 11-punctata menestriesi Mulsant, Spec. Col. 
Sécuripalpes, 104 (1850) ; (=aeyyptiaca, Reiche. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 
1861, 212) . 
‘‘ Ovalaire. Prothorax noir, paré sur les cétés d’une bordure d’un blanc flave, 
