Coleopterous Insects of Massachusetts. 51 
washed up by the tide. It resembles, at first sight, the 
C. cacti, Fabr., but differs in the shape of the thorax 
and the elytral spots. 
99. COCCINELLA MULTIGUTTATA. 
C. corpore punctato, elongato-ovato ; capite flavo, basi utrinque 
nigro; palpis antennisque pallidis, oculis nigris; thorace flayo, utrin- 
que confluento-trimaculatis ; elytris "sem singulis 7, 8 aut 9 antec 
tis, maculis confluentibus; pedibus flavis 
Body punctured, elongate-ovate: head yellowish, 
base on each side black: eyes black: palpi and an- 
tenne yellowish : thorax yellowish, with three confluent 
spots on each side: elytra yellowish, with seven, eight, 
or nine black spots, accordingly as they are more or less 
confluent 2: body —— HÀ black ; margin Yellow 4 feet 
yellow. 
Length from more than two twentieths to less than 
three twentieths of an inch. 
Cambridge,- Mass., on the leaves of trees; rare; 
allied to the C. 10-maculata, Fabr. and to the C. tibialis 
and C. parénthesis, Say. 
30. CoccINELLA PICTA. 
C. corpore nigro, rotundato-ovato ; capite fulvo trimaculato ; thorace 
marginibus antico lateralique ae anticé luteo-trimaculato, maculis 
margine confluentibus ; basi luteo-bimaculata ; elytris luteis, fasciis 
duabus, nigris, transversis, eee confluentibus ; pedibus flavo- 
testaceis. 
Body round ovate: head black, with three yellow 
parallel lines: thorax black, anterior and lateral mar- 
gins yellow ; the yellow spots before, confluent with the 
margin, of which the middle one is large and irregular, 
