. Australian insects. Insects. COLEOPTERA. 209 scrubs, ; it is a large bcetk', (^asily rocoj^nised by the large, rounded, yellowish red blotch on the sides of the elytra. The typical CocchicUa rcpanda measures l of an inch in length; it is a little, rounded, bright yellow beetle, with the head and thorax blackish, the elytra strijjcd down the centre, and marked on either side with two irregular black Y-shaped blotches. It has a wide range over Australia, and feeds upon all kinds of aphids, sometimes appearing in grc^at Fig- IQZ.—Tlwa ijalhtiln (Mulsnnt). The Yellow-shouldered Lady-bird.
. Australian insects. Insects. COLEOPTERA. 209 scrubs, ; it is a large bcetk', (^asily rocoj^nised by the large, rounded, yellowish red blotch on the sides of the elytra. The typical CocchicUa rcpanda measures l of an inch in length; it is a little, rounded, bright yellow beetle, with the head and thorax blackish, the elytra strijjcd down the centre, and marked on either side with two irregular black Y-shaped blotches. It has a wide range over Australia, and feeds upon all kinds of aphids, sometimes appearing in grc^at Fig- IQZ.—Tlwa ijalhtiln (Mulsnnt). The Yellow-shouldered Lady-bird. ("Agricultural Gazette," ) numbers all over the country. Lcis conformis is a larger species, of a uniform bright orange yellow, thickly spotted with black. It is a common garden insect, where the clus- ters of its slender yellow eggs may be often noticed attached to the bark of aphis infested trees; and its elongated, smoky tinted larvae, blotched on the sides with orange, may be often watched feeding upon rose or peach ai»his. llien Fig. IQ^. — Veranla frenata (Ericlison). The Striped Lady-ljird. ("Agricultural Gazette," ) yalhula is a dainty little lady-bird, with the" dorsal surface bright pale yellow, marked with black in the centre of the thorax; the dorsal sti'ipe down the centre of the elytra connects two pairs of black blotches crossing the centre and base. It measures about li of an inch in length, and is at times common in our gardens. Verania frenata is J4 of an inch; it is yellow, with the thorax black behind, and with three stripes of the same colour down the elytra. It has a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Froggatt, W. W. (Walter Wilson), 1858-; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS; Tippmann Collection (North Carol
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