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PLATE DXLII. 



COCCINELLA 4-PUNCTATA. 



F0UR.3P0T RED LADY-COW. 

 COLEOPETERA. 



Antennae clavated, club folid: anterior feelers femicordated : thorax 

 and wing-cafes margined: body hemifpherical : abdomen beneath 

 black. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Wing-cafes red with four black dots. 



CocciNELLA 4-punctAta : coleopteris flavis: pun6tis nigris qua- 

 tuor. Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 580. 590. Fabr. Sp« 

 Inf. I. p. 95. n. \6.—Mant. Inf. 

 I. p. 56. n. 28. 



Coccinella cjuadripunctata. Gmd. Linn. Syft. Nat, 

 1647. 9- 



Coccinella 4-punctata. Marjh. Ent< Brit. T. I. p. 151. 7- 



Profeffor Gmelin, in defcribing this fpecies of Coccinella, refers for 

 its name and character exelufively to the Fabrician Species Infeclorunu 

 and Mantiffa. and hence it might be concluded that Fabricius was its 



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