230 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY, 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body rather oblong, very minutely punctured ; black underneath, with two distant white spots on 

 the breast, and three contiguous ones on each side of the abdomen. Head black with a transverse 

 white band or trident between the eyes, tricuspidate both anteriorly and posteriorly ; the intermediate 

 posterior lobe the longest : prothorax white with a large bipartite black spot, each lobe being trilobed 

 with rounded lobes resembling a trefoil leaf and connected with the other by a transverse band : 

 elytra pale reddish-yellow; with three black spots and one at the scutellum common to both elytra, 

 placed 2, 1, 1 ; the scutellar spot somewhat bell-shaped, the humeral one roundish, the intermediate 

 one nearly kidney-shaped, and that nearest the apex rather crescent-shaped. 



Variety B. Frontal band replaced by three white spots, the intermediate the longest and linear. 



This species seems to come near C. Parenthesis Say, but still appears distinct. 



** Body hemispherical. 



(312) 4. * Coccinella auiNQ.UE-siGNATA. Five-signed Coccinella. 



C. fquinque-signataj atra, oblongo-hemispluerica .• coleoptris fulvis : fascia communi baseos, duabus abbreviatis disci, punctisque 



duobus apicis, nigris ; frontis macula, angulisque thoracinis antias, albis. 

 Five-signed Coccinella, black, between oblong and hemispherical ; elytra taken together tawny, with a basilar band common 



to both, two abbreviated ones and two dots near the apex, black ; spot of the front and anterior angles of the 



prothorax white. 



PLATE VII, FIG. 1. 



Length of the body 3 lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong-hemispherical, very minutely and thickly punctured ; underneath black and a little 

 downy. Head black with an acute white spot in the forehead between the eyes ; antenna? obscurely 

 rufous, dusky at the base and tip : prothorax black, anterior angles and intermediate streak, white : 

 elytra tawny-yellow with an abbreviated band common to both at the base, an oblique discoidal 

 abbreviated band and apical dot, black ; four distant lateral triangular white spots mark the breast. 



(313) 5. * Coccinella gujingiue-notata. Five-marked Coccinella. 



C. fquinque-notataj atra hemispharica, coleoptris rvfo-fulvis, fascia communi baseos, et quatuor discoidalibus, abbreviatis, 



nigris ; fronte maculis duabus, prothoraceque angulis anticis pallide luteis. 

 Five-marked Coccinella, black, hemispherical ; elytra tawny-rufous, with a basilar band common to both, and four discoidal 



ones, abbreviated, black ; front with two spots, and prothorax with the anterior angles, pale-yellow. 



Length of the body 3g- lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 54°. Taken also by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. 



