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DESCRIPTION. 



Body linear, naked. Head black, smooth, channelled between the eyes ; antennas robust, scarcely 

 longer than the prothorax, black; eyes large, dark-brown : prothorax transverse, narrowest anteriorly, 

 red, with four dusky spots placed transversely, grossly punctured, posterior angles producted, behind 

 with a slight sinus on each side ; space above the scutellum truncate : scutellum dull-red : elytra 

 linear, black, three-ridged, with an abbreviated ridge towards the apex between the second and third ; 

 ridges elevated ; interstices with a double series of large and very close punctures ; between the 

 second and third at the base and apex the series is quadruple, in the middle triple ; lateral margin 

 and apex serrulate : underside of the body blood-red : legs black, base of the thighs red. 



We now come to a tribe of beetles which though generally regarded as nearly 

 related to the Cassidiadoe, Chrysomelidce, and other phytiphagous tribes are of pre- 

 daceous habits, subsisting altogether upon Aphides. In some respects they appear 

 related to the Anisotomidoe and some Nitidulidw, 2 and their natural place is not 

 yet satisfactorily ascertained. 



XI. APHIDIPHAGA. Lat. 

 Family COCCINELLIDiE. CoccineUidans. 



CXXII. Genus COCCINELLA. Linn. 



* Body oblong, subdepressed. 

 1 Spotted with black. 



(309) 1. * Coccinella episcopalis. Episcopal Coccinella. 



C. I episcopalis J atra, angusta ; pedibvs testaceis : fronte lineolis tribus pallidis signata ; prothorace coleoptrisque pallide luteis ; 



vittis duabus communibus atris hamatis, pedum episcopate referentibus. 

 Episcopal Coccinella, black, narrow ; legs testaceous : forehead marked with three pale lines : prothorax and elytra, taken 



together, pale-yellow, with two black, hooked stripes, common to both, resembling a bishop's crosier. 



PLATE V, FIG. 4. 

 Length of the body 2 lines. 



Taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 



- Nitidula hemipharica Lin. Trans, xii, 395.28, Hemitonia K. MS. 



