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nor does it appear in the Systema Eleutheratorum. 

 I record it merely as a Cassida. In Gmelin's 

 Systema, the following note occurs : — " Habitat in 

 India, An Varietas Blattae Petiverianse ? Brunnich." 



Sp. 27. Discoides. — Probably a misprint ; read 

 Discoidea. 



Sp. 28. Petiveriana. — This insect is a Cockroach, 

 and belongs to the order Dermaptera; it is now 

 ranged under Corydia of Serville, one of the genera 

 of Blattidse. 



Sp. 30. Bipustula. — Probably an error of the 

 press, instead of Bipustulata. 



Sp. 31. Angustata. — Probably a true Cassida. 

 This species must not be confounded with Olivier's 

 Angustata, which is only a variety of Selenis Per- 

 forata of Fabricius. 



Coccinella, Linneus. 



The insects belonging to this genus are commonly 

 denominated Lady Birds, we are familiar with them 

 from our childhood ; they deserve our attention also 

 in later years ; and if we encouraged the breeding 

 of them to some extent, we might find the benefit 

 to be derived from them, in saving annually the 

 devastation occasioned by the hop blight. They 

 should be collected in the Autumn in great numbers 

 by sweeping the herbage, &c. with a hoopnet. In 

 the country we frequently see them congregated 

 together in great numbers behind the window -shut- 

 ters; many pass the winter in the crevices, and 

 under the bark of trees; others again hybernate 

 in old walls. In the out-houses of our farms, logs 



