COCCINELLID/E. 229 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body narrow, nearly linear, having at first sight the aspect of a Haltica, underneath black. Head 

 black with three oblong pale yellow spots, two adjoining the eyes on their inner side, and one placed 

 backwards in the vertex; mouth, antenna?, and palpi rufous: prothorax and both elytra taken together, 

 pale yellow with two black stripes, common to both, resembling a bishop's crosier, the crook being 

 on the thorax and the stalk on the elytra ; suture of the latter black except at the tip : legs pale 

 testaceous : anus, sides of the abdomen, and tips of the ventral segment, except the basal one, pale. 



(310) 2. Coccinella tredecim-punctata. Thirteen-dotted Coccinella. 



Coccinella tredecim-punctata. Linn. Fn. Succ. 481 ; Syst. Nat. ii, 582, 20. Fab. Syst. Ent. 83,25; Syst. Eleuth. i, 

 369, 76. Payk. Fn. Suec. ii, 42, 44. Gyll. Ent. Suec. iv, 207, 26. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 156, 19. Ulig. Kaf. Preuss. i, 

 425, 14, y. Herbst. Lis. v, 323, 79, t. 57, 11 ; Arch. 43, 8. Panz. Ent. Germ, i, 139, 27. Scop. Ent. Car. 76, 238. 

 Ross. Fn. Etrusc. i, 63, 157. De Geer Ins. v, 375, 9. Ced. Fn. Ingr. 160. Thunb. Nov. Act. Ups. v, 104, 29. 

 Mull. Zool. Dan. Pr. 66, 629. Schrank. Enitm. 55, 102. Vill. Ent. i, 101, 18. Oliv. Ins. vi, 98, 1023, 53, t. vi, /. 79. 

 Brahm. Ins. Kal. 78, 251. Geoff. 7ns. i, 324, 7. Scha:ff. Icon. t. xlviii, /. 6. H— r. Ins. 161, 80. Reaum. Ins. iii, t. 

 xxxi, /. 19 ; Acta. Nidr. iv, 7. Mull. Fn. Frid. 6, 53. Stew. Elem. ii, 43. Don. Brit. Ins. xi, t. 362, /. 2. Haw. 

 Ent. Trans, i, 276. Step. Ittustr. Mandib. iv, 388, 28. 



Length of the body 3 lines. 



Several specimens taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong, black, lightly and minutely punctured ; underneath slightly downy. Mouth and 

 its organs pale rufous ; nose white, whiteness with a posterior central lobe ; antenna? rufous : pro- 

 thorax white with a large discoidal spot falling short of the anterior margin, where it is truncated ; 

 sides lobed, besides which there is a black dot on each side connected with the above spot : elytra 

 reddish-yellow with six largish black dots, namely 1, 2, 2, 1, and one at the scutellum common to 

 both elytra ; the first marginal dot is ovate, the rest approaching to round : the tibia? and tarsi are 

 testaceous : there are two transverse white spots on each side the breast, between the four posterior 

 legs ; and four triangular pale ones on each side the abdomen. 



Variety B. Nose rufous, with a parallegramniscal white spot between the antenna?. 



(311) 3. Coccinella tridens. Trident Coccinella. 



C. f tridens) atra, fronte antice tridente, prothorace margine antica el laterali, maculaque quadrata postica, albis ; coleoptris 



luteis, maculis septem difformibus atris. 

 Trident Coccinella, very black, anterior trident of the front ; anterior and lateral margin and square posterior spot of the 



prothorax, white ; elytra taken together luteous, with seven diversely shaped black spots. 



Length of the body 2j lines. 



Two specimens taken in the Expedition. 



