ON SOME COCCINELLIDAE (COLEOPTERA) FROM 
NEWFOUNDLAND AND NOVA SCOTIA. 
By Edward A. Chapin 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 
In 1949 and 1951, Dr. Carl H. Lindroth, of the Univer- 
sity of Lund, Sweden, and party made extensive collections 
of insects in Newfoundland, with some attention paid to 
Nova Scotia and Miquelon. The writer has been privileged 
to examine the lady-beetles collected by the members of 
the two expeditions, which were made possible by grants 
from the Arctic Institute of North America and the Uni- 
versity of Helsinki, Finland. A total of 348 specimens, 
representing 19 species, one of which appears to be new 
to science, was taken. The first set of specimens is deposited 
in the Helsinki University museum, the second (including 
the unique type of the new species) in the Canadian 
National Collection. Other specimens are in the collections 
of the United States National Museum, the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology and the writer. A list of the species 
taken, with localities, dates, collector’s initials and station 
numbers, is given at the end of this paper. The collectors 
were C. H. Lindroth and E. Palmen. The following species 
seem worthy of special comment. 
Coccinella undecimpunctata L. Known from various sta- 
tions along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts north- 
ward. At this time it seems best to correct the record of 
this species from Alaska. Dobzhansky, in his revision of 
North American Coccinella 1 reported two specimens from 
Alaska as belonging doubtfully to this species. Dissection 
of one of them, a male, showed them to be C. difficilis 
Crotch. Therefore, at present, the known distribution of 
C. undecimpunctata L. in North America is along the 
Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Newfoundland and 
the distribution of C. difflicilis Cr. is from Colorado, Utah 
and Nevada north to a point 60-75 miles north of Rampart 
House, Alaska. 
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