A GENERIC SYNOPSIS OF THE COCCINELLID LARVAE IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE LARVA OF HYPERASPIS BINO-TATA SAY. By Adam Boving, Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. INTRODUCTION. This paper is a contribution from the Branch of Forest Insects pre-pared under an arrangement between Dr. A. D. Hopkins, in charge of Forest Insects, and Dr. A. L. Quaintance, in charge of Deciduous Fruit Insects of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, to supplement a biological paper by F. L. Simanton, Entomological Assistant, Deciduous Fruit Insects, entitled Hyperas-pis binotata, A Predatory Enemy of the Terrapin Scale. ^ In connection with the author's investigations of Coleopterous larvae affecting forest and shade trees, he has been glad of an oppor-tunity to study in details the morphology of the larva of Hyperaspis binotata Say, and to work out a synopsis of the larvae of the Coccinel-lid genera, represented in the United States National Museum. The systematic notes of the present paper are, however, only intended as an outUne for further studies and as a small contribution in the dis-cussion about the natural arrangement of the genera of this difficult group. The student of the family must rely upon earher papers, among the most useful of which are L. Ganglbauer's critical abstract in his Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa (vol. 3, 1899), and especially the admirable paper of George Dimmock: Algunas CoccineUidae de Cuba in Primer informe anual de la Estacion Central Agronomica de Cuba (1906). As the present synopsis is based on the morphological study of the larva of Hyperaspis hinotata, the description of this larva has been placed first. » Joum. Agric. Res., Dept. Agric, Wash., D. C, vol. 6, 1916, pp. 197-203, with two plates. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 51— No 2171. 621
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