COCCINELLIDAE — LADYBIRDS SOME details of eight species and varieties of this family of beetles which I have taken from gardens, wasteland, roadside banks and verges within the boundaries of the borough of Bury St. Edmunds, during the summers of 1950-51-52-53. Tytthaspis sexdecimpunctata L.* 16-spotted. Three specimens taken from the foliage of Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, and from the foliage of the Garden Rock Cress, Arabis albida. Rare. Thea vigintiduopunctata L. 22-spotted. Several specimens taken from the foliage of the Common Stinging Nettle, Urtica dioica, Wall Barley, Hordeum murinum, Potatoes, cultivated Parsnips and Carrots. Not common. Propylea quatuordecimpunctata L. 14-spotted. Only one specimen of the spotted form but several of the form—elytra yellow, with angular spots and broad black marks—taken from all kinds of foliage, including grasses. Spotted form r a r e ; angular form, fairly common. Sceymnus rubromaculatus Goeze. T w o specimens, unicolorous— black—taken ; one from the foliage of Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, the other from the foliage of Buddleia, Buddleia variabilis. Rare. Coccinella undecimpunctata L.f 11-spotted. T w o specimens taken from the foliage of the Garden Rock Cress, Arabis albida. Rare. Coccinella septempunctata L. 7-spotted. numerous on all kinds of Vegetation.
Very common and
Adalia decempunctata L. 10-spotted. One specimen of the true form and one var., taken from the foliage of the Spotted Deadnettle, Lamium maculatum. Description of var.—elytra black, with two large angular light chestnut-brown spots. Both rare. Adalia bipunctata L. 2-spotted. This and three of its vars. taken from the foliage of Potatoes, Parsnips, Asters, Cosmos, Fennel and Nettles. T r u e form not common. Description of vars.—(1) Elytra orange-red, two squared spots. One specimen taken from the foliage of Cosmos, Cosmos bipinnatus. Rare. * M a r s h y areas generally. f Usually near salt marshes. * f T h e s e two habitats are given in " H a n d b o o k s for the Identification of British Insects—Coleoptera, Coccinellidae and Sphindidae " by R. D . Pope. 25th August, 1953. Published by the Royal Entomological Society of L o n d o n . Vol. V, Part 7.