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Var. 5. Pale testaceous, with the eyes black, and the elytra immaculate. 

 Var. «. Dull piceouSj with the disc of the elytra, in common, black ; the eyes 

 and abdomen also black. 



Very common at the roots of plants and on flowers, within the 

 metropoUtan district in June. " Dalmeney." — Rev. W. Little. 

 "Swansea, common." — L.W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Wood Ditton." — 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. " Weston." — Rev. A. H. Matthews. 



Genus CCCCXIX.— Cacicula Megerle. 



Antennoe longer than the thorax, slightly pilose, basal joint robust ; second 

 short, slightly thickened; third elongate, slender; fourth shorter than the 

 fifth, both rather slender ; three following short, subovate ; the remainder 

 forming an elongate club, the terminal joint being largest and truncate. 

 Falpi short, very robust : mandibles with the apex bifid : head trigonate, 

 sub-porrect: eyes depressed: thorax short, with the sides rounded, the 

 base closely applied to that of the elytra, the latter ovate, striated : legs 

 simple. 



The genus Cacicula, — which has been improperly called Cacidula, 

 from copying a typographical error, — may be readily distinguished 

 from the other Coccinellidae by the elongation of its body and 

 antennas, and by the somewhat punctate-striate elytra. The spe- 

 cies are chiefly found, as in the preceding genus, at the roots of 

 plants. 



Sp. 1. pectoralis. Oblonga, rvfa, pedore nigro, elytris svhpunctato-striaiis, 



immaculatis. (Long. corp. 1 — If lin.) 

 Ch, pectoralis. Fabricius. — Ca. pectoralis. Steph. Catal. 240. No. 2406. 



Oblong, rufovs : eyes black : thorax pale rufous, generally immaculate, some- 

 times with two obscure fuscous spots on the disc: elytra thickly punctured, 

 the larger punctures somewhat disposed in striae, the disc immaculate : 

 breast and anterior part of the abdomen black: apex of the latter and legs 

 rufous : antennae pale. 



Var. /3. With the entire body pale-testaceous : the result of immaturity. 



Very abundant at the roots of grass in damp situations, especially 

 in Copenhagen and Battersea fields. " Dalmeney.''— i^eu. W. 

 Little. " Monk's-wood, &c."— C. C. Balmigton, Esq. " Sketty- 

 burrows, Cardiff, &c."-Z. W. Dillwyn, Esq. •' Upware, Cam- 

 bridge."— i?eu. L. Jenyns. " Baron-wood."— T. C. Heysham, Esq. 

 "Weston.''— Rev. A. H.Matthews. 



