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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW YORK 
Amis. FIVE-MARKED GOCCIXELLA DESCRIBED. 
apparently to sip some of the moisture there. It did not become 
stationary and hang out its wings to dry till nearly a half hour 
after it came out of its pupa shell. Its wing covers were very 
glossy and of a rich citron or lemon color, and it wa§ almost an 
hour after its birth before any smokiness to indicate the coming 
out of spots thereon could be perceived, although the head 
and thorax had their colors and spots perfect when it came from 
the pupa shell. The places of all the spots began to be dimly 
discolored at the same time. At nightfall, four hours after its 
birth, the spots were about half completed, the inner ends of the 
hind ones being still smoky and pale, and the anterior band 
being black only on the suture, with its outer ends yet faint and 
indefinite. The next morning it was standing in the same place 
its spots being now perfect. 
This species was named the Five-marked Coccinella or Coccinella 
5-notata by Mr. Kirby. It had previously been ticketed the 
Transverse-spotted Coccinella (C. transverso-guttata ) by Mr. Say, 
and this name had been published by Dr. Harris in his Catalogue 
of the Insects of Massachusetts, but no description accompanied 
it to render it valid until the species was described by M. Fal- 
dcrman in the Memoirs of the St. Petersburg Academy. 
The Five-marked Coccinella measures 0.20 to 0.28 in length by 0.16 to 0.20 in width, its 
body being nearly hemispheric, smooth and shining, with minute punctures. Its head is 
black with a narrow white band on the lower edge and on the front two white spots (becoming 
yellow in the dead specimen as does all the other white parts excopt those on the under side) 
each occupying a third of the space between the eyes, these spots being angulated on their 
inner sides. There is also a small white dot at the lower corner of the eyes. The lip is 
black and also the palpi and mandibles, the outer side of the latter being whito. Theantenmo 
are dark brown, their basal joint black and their tips blackish. The thorax is black with a 
squareish white spot occupying each of its anterior angles, the inner side of this spot being 
shortest and its outer side reaching more than half the length of the thorax, the slonder outer 
edge of which is black at least a part of the distance along the outer side of this spot. The 
soutel is triangular and black. • The wing covers are orange red or orange yellow, with a 
white spot on their front edge on each side of the scntel, and near their base is a black band 
common to both wing covers und extending from the suture more than two-thirds of the dis¬ 
tance to the outer margin, this band jutting forward in its middle and embracing the scutel, 
and sometimes having its hind side prolonged in a corresponding manner along the suture. 
Near the middle of each wiug cover is a transvorso black spot resembling a short band, its 
inner end being twice as near the suture as its outer end is to the outer margin. Half way 
from this to the tip is a second similar spot, but slightly larger and ocqupying half tho width 
of the wing cover at this point, with its inner end twico as far from tho suturo as its oute r 
end is from the outer margin, this spot being frequently thicker on its inner than its outer 
part. The wings are smoky with their basal part clear and having pale orange oolored veins. 
The back underneath the wing covers is black with a pale red stripe on each side near the 
outer edge and two or three bands of the same color across tho fore part. All tho under side 
is black with a white spot on the fore angles of tho hind breast and usually a less clear one 
on the hind angles. In the males is a milk whito dot on the haunches of the fore legs. 
