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Wollaston says that he knows nothing of it beyond the mere fact 
that Fabricius states it to have come from St. Helena. 
Fam. Coccinellida. 
. Cydonia, Muls. 
*C. lunata, Fab. — The Ladybird of the Island is abundant 
everywhere, but most common in the central part where vegetation 
abounds and it can feed upon the aphides of the rose-bushes ; I 
have nevertheless seen the larvae hanging suspended under large 
rocks and stones on the barren, hot. lower land. It is a pretty little 
creature, in colour generally bright red and black, but sometimes 
yellow and black. Mr. Wollaston says: “Although with a wide 
geographical range (it having been recorded from Senegal, the Cape 
of Good Hope, Caffraria, Madagascar, the islands of Bourbon and 
Mauritius, the East Indies, and Java), it was originally described 
by Fabricius (in 1775) from St. Helena specimens, now in the 
Banksian collection ; and therefore, whatever doubt may be enter- 
tained as to the claim for specific separation of some of the extreme 
states which have been ascribed to it, there can at least be no 
question about the St. Helena form, which must of necessity be 
looked upon as the typical one.” 
C. vicina, Muls. — A species common over the African conti- 
nent, as well as in the Cape Verde archipelago. 
Thea, Muls. 
T. variegata, Fab.' — A small pale yellow and black Ladybird, 
about half the size of the other, and less common ; almost 
the only examples I met with were bred from larvae which were 
given to me from the grape-vines at Scotland, a position about 
2000 feet above the sea. Mr. Wollaston says: “It is a species 
which occurs at the Cape of Good Hope, and which was recorded by 
Erichson from Angola ; and it is not improbable, therefore, that it 
may have been introduced into St. Helena from perhaps the former 
of those localities.” 
Epilachna, Clievr. 
E. chrysomelina, Fab. — Mr. Wollaston says: “ Although I have 
never seen a St. Helena example of the Mediterranean F. chrysomelina, 
