390 MANDIBULATA. CjOLEOPTERA. 



Co. globosa. Illiger.—Steph. Catal. 237. No. 2390. Co. 24-punctata,— 

 Don. ix. pi. 362. /. 5. var. fi. 



Hemispheric, generally with wings : head and legs for the most part xu^o-ferru- 

 ginous : thorax the same, sometimes spotted : elytra ferruginous, frequently 

 with black spots, or nearly black, with the apex more or less rufous. 



Var. a. Entirely ferruginous, immaculate. 



Var. ^. With the thorax having from I to 5 black spots, the body often black. 



Var. y. The same, with a black dot on the shoulder of the elytra. 



Var. d. Thorax ferruginous; elytra with 7 black dots, 3 in the middle, 1 to- 

 wards the suture, and 3 near the apex. 



Var. B. Thorax ferruginous with black dots, or black with a ferruginous edge ; 

 elytra with 8 black spots, as in var. S. with 1 additional at the shoulder; 

 scutellum sometimes black. 



Var. ^. The same; but the elytra with 10 spots, placed 1, 3, 1, 3, 2, the last 

 in the apex. 



Var. V. The same; the elytra with 10 spots, placed 3, 3, 1, 3, the apex 

 immaculate. 



Var. 9. The same; the elytra with 11 distinct or confluent spots, placed 2, 3, 

 1, 3, 2, the last at the apex. 



Var. t. Thorax with black spots, the elytra with 11 spots, frequently con- 

 fluent, placed 3, 3, 1, 3, 1. 



Var. K. The same ; the elytra with 12 spots, placed 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, and often a 

 small one near the scutellum. 



Var. \. The same, with the spots more or less confluent. 



Var. fi. The same, with the spots united into regular fasciae. 



Var. V. Thorax ferruginous, with the middle black: elytra black, with a 

 ferruginous common spot in the middle, or the apex rufous with two black 

 dots, and at the base of the elytra a small lunate rufous spot. 



f Sp. 32. impunctata. Hemisphcerica, aptera, capite ventreque nigris, thorace 

 elytrisque livide riifis, his posterius gihbosis. (Long. corp. IJ lin.) 



Co. impunctata. LinnL — Mar sham (! ) Co. aptera. — Steph. Catal. 238. 

 No. 2391. 



Hem,ispheric , apterous : head black : thorax of a livid red, generally with a 

 longitudhial fuscous cloud in the middle : elytra also livid red, very gibbous 

 behind, and immaculate; or with a few obscure dots towards the base : 

 body beneath blacky with the margins of the abdominal segments and the 

 sides of the breast pale : legs black, with the tibiae and apex of the anterior 

 femora testaceous. 



Marsham and other writers give this as an indigenous species, but out of the 

 myriads of Coccinellidae which have passed beneath my examination, I have 

 never seen a British specimen. 



