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The wing-cafes in this fpecies are red, with two black dots on each, 

 and one common black dot at the bale. The thorax is black, with 

 the anterior angle white. 



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PLATE DLXXII. 



FIG. I. 



COCCINELLA 5-PUNCTATA. 



FIVE-DOT RED COCCINELLA, or COW-LADY. 

 COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clavated, the club folid : anterior feelers hatchet -ffrnped, 

 pofterior filiform : thorax and wing -cafes margined : body hemifphe- 

 rical : abdomen flat. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Wing-cafes fanguineous with five black dots. 



Coccinella 5-punctata: coleoptris fanguineis: punctis nigris 

 quinque. Linn. Syji. Nat. 580: 11. — Fn. Suec. 

 474.— Fabr. Sj/Ji. Ent. 80. 11. — Sp. Inf. 1. 96. 

 n.—Mant. 1. 56. 31.— Ent. Sj/ji. 1. a 273. 36, 

 Mar/h. Ent. Brit. T. 1. 151. 5. 



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