No. 1.] E. P. Stebbing — Predaceous Coccinellida?, Indian Region. 51 



Genus Ccelophora. 



Muls. Spec. p. 390 (typ. insequalis). 



Epistome simply toothed. Antennae with a long and slender club, 

 the 9th and nth joints generally longer than wide. Prothorax 

 arched and hardly turned up behind ; ordinarily obliquely cut. 

 Scutellum generally wider than long, ending in a point. Elytra 

 usually rounded posteriorly. Body sub-hemispherical. 



4, Ccelophora sauzeti Muls. 



. (PI. III. fig. 4, 4*0 



Predaceous upon Aphis sp. The Peach Aphis. 



2?£^/<?.— Ground colour canary yellow. Head, antennae and legs 

 same colour. Thorax black with a yellow triangular patch on anterior 

 ojter angles. A black line running down elytral suture expanding 

 nto a circular spot in centre and near the apical ends of the elytra. 

 In addition there are two other circular black spots on each elytron 

 placed laterally, the one near the outer basal extremity, the other in 

 the upper half. Ventr.il surface black. Length 4*1 millim. 



Described from living specimens. Fig. 40 shows this beetle 

 natural size and enlarged. 



Larva. — Head black, first three segments black with a yellow spot 

 on their dorsal surfaces, small on first, larger on the o.ther two. A 

 yellow edging between head and first segment of the body, this being 

 continued down the sides of first three segments. Rest of segments 

 black, the seventh and eighth having a series of yellow dots running 

 transversely from one side dorsally to the other, largest in centre* 

 A yellow transverse patch in centre of dorsal surface of the ninth, 

 tenth and eleventh segments and one at the sides of each of the 

 fourth and fifth. Legs black. Ventral surface black with a broad 

 yellow elongate stripe running right down the centre. Described 

 from living species taken in the middle of May, See PI. III. fig. 4. 



Distribution. — Dehra Dun plateau, North India. Elevation 2,000 

 feet (mihi). 



Life-History. — Both larvae and beetle? were taken between the 

 1 2th and 15th May. The insect in both stages feeds actively 

 upon a small aphis which infests the peach in the Dun plateau in 

 Northern India. The larvae devour both larval and winged forms of 

 the aphis, whilst the beetle seems to prefer the wingless larval forms „ 



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