1875.] 377 [Sprague. 



Coccinella obliqua and C. similis Hand, are now known, 

 and are varieties of the same species. 



Coccinella notans Rand, is not the puttata of Say. 



Coccinella lugubris Rand, is a true species, not the elegans of 

 Mulsant. 



Languria brevicollis Rand, is Cephaloleia metallica. 



Hyperaspis (Coccinella) lugubris Rand, having for a long- 

 time been confounded with a very similar species, H. elegans, yet 

 quite distinct when seen together, I am induced to redescribe, as Ran- 

 dall's description lacks the completeness actually required. 



Hyperaspis (Coccinella') lugubris Rand. (Boston Journ. Nat. 

 Hist., Vol. ii, p. 52, 1838.) Black, oval, convex, with the lateral 

 margin of the thorax and the elytra, from the humerus to past the 

 middle, yellowish- white, the latter above with two spots on each 

 side, one in front of the middle, the other near the apex ; beneath 

 brown, and sparsely covered with silky pubescence. Long. .09 mm. 

 The head is pitchy brown, obsoletely punctured; the thorax and 

 elytra finely punctured, the latter more distinctly so. The discoidal 

 spot of the elytra is wholl} r in front of the middle, and directly above 

 a depression in the marginal band ; it is situated well up towards the 

 suture, but not as near as the apical one; the latter is wholly behind 

 the marginal band, and as far from the apex as the anterior one is 

 from the base. The elytral border scarcely reaches the humerus, 

 and follows the margin to the middle, where it is somewhat dila- 

 tated. Two examples. In one the head and under surface, includ- 

 ing the legs, testaceous. This species differs from Hyperaspis elegans 

 by its larger size, greater breadth and convexity. The elytra are 

 more finely punctured. In elegans the dorsal spot is mealy, its 

 diameter further back, and it has no apical one proper, but the 

 marginal band is sometimes interrupted, leaving close to the margin 

 a detached part. In lugubris the apical spot is so much above the 

 apex as to preclude its being a part of the border. The elytral 

 marginal border of elegans is dilated at the humerus, the middle, 

 and near the apex, while in lugubris it is very dilated at the middle, 

 and scarcely reaches the humerus. 



[This species is quite rare in Massachusetts. I have taken only 

 one specimen in the vicinity of Cambridge, which was obtained sev- 

 eral years ago. e. p. a.] 



The volume in which these species were described is now out of 

 print; therefore I have reproduced the original descriptions of 



