STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
849 
APHIS. FIVE-MARKED COCCIKELLA. 
Coccinella novem-notata, given it by Herbst over sixty years since, 
being the only one it has received. The number of its spots is 
always the same, and only the following variations in their size 
and connections have occured to my observation, which appear 
sufficiently remarkable to be worthy of notice: 
Variety a, inccqualis. The outer spot of the wing covers smaller than the anterior one, 
sometimes merely a round dot. Common. 
by parvamaculata. The three anterior spots on each wing cover small round dots of 
nearly equal size, with the hind spot also smaller than usual. 
c, conjunct a. The two anterior spots connected by a slender black line running 
from the outer side of the forward ono to the inner side of the outer one. Not 
rare. 
dy confluent a . The inner and hind spots broadly united, the anterior spot nearly 
as large ns the inner one and slenderly united to it and also to the outer spot, 
e, divisicollis . A black streak extending backward from the eyes to the disk of the 
thorax and dividing the white band from the spots at each end of it. 
This Coccinella is common in all parts of the United States, 
and extends south through Mexico and Central America. 
The Five-marked Coccinella, C. b-notata , Kirby. 
Associated with the Nine-marked coccinella in our grain fields 
another species makes its appearance in the month of August or 
earlier, so closely resembling it that it is only by looking par¬ 
ticularly at them that they will be recognized as different. 
Viewed from behind their marks appear to the eye to be identi¬ 
cal, four large black spots occuring in the same situation in 
both species. But on the fore part of the wing covers, instead of 
three black dots a black band is here seen. This species, more¬ 
over, is slightly larger than the preceding one, and it will be 
perceived to be more slow in its motions. 
I have been unable to distinguish its larva if I have ever seen 
it, from that of the preceding species. And the only pupa from 
which I have bred this insect appears from the evacuated shell 
to have been similar to that already described, but more black, 
having only yellow colors as follows: a row of spots on the mid¬ 
dle of the back, the abdomen with a spot on each side at its 
base and a smaller one near its middle, a broad cloud across the 
middle of the thorax and a cloud-like spot on the base of the 
wing-sheaths. 
The insect which came from this pupa walked slowly about on 
the small leaf to which it was attached, returning to its pupa 
shell and applying its mouth to the inside of the fissure therein, 
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