EPILACHNA. 237 



Hab. Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers) ; Panama, Bugaba, 

 Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet (Champion). 



Head, thorax, body beneath, the margins, epipleurse, and suture of the elytra jet- 

 black ; the disk of the elytra pale testaceous (in life pearly and metallic), often with a 

 spot united with the margin in the middle, or a slight widening of the black in that 

 part looking like the commencement of a fascia. The margin of the elytra is expanded 

 round its entire length, the expanded part being a little rugose. The coxal fossettes 

 are not very distinctly denned. This insect belongs to the " JE. proteus" group of the 

 genus, but appears quite distinct in form, as well as in the sparseness of the pubescence, 

 from any of the numerous varieties of that species. I have a very similar but distinct 

 insect from Colombia. 



Mr. Champion met with a long series of examples on the Volcan de Chiriqui, feeding 

 on a very spiny species of Solanaceous plant, and Mr. Rogers sent about a dozen from 

 Irazu. Only one example occurred at Bugaba. The yellow portion of the elytra is, 

 Mr. Champion informs me, burnished with gold in life, rendering this a very beautiful 

 and striking object. 



2. Epilachna tumida. (Tab. xill. fig. 2.) 



Late subcordata, valde convexa, nigra, haud pubescens, elytrorum disco tumido, gibboso, plaga sanguinea ; 

 prothorace quam elytra duplo angustiore, his marginibus explanatis, ereberrime, ad apicem confluenter 

 punetatis. Long. 12-13 millim. 



Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten), R. Sucio, Volcan de Irazu (Rogers). 



Black, the disk of the elytra raised in a tumid manner, with a deep blood-red broad 

 stripe on each, leaving the suture narrowly black ; the elytral margins expanded and a 

 little reflexed at the extreme edge, of nearly equal width from the base to the apex, the 

 widest part a very little below the shoulders. 



This insect is not very nearly allied to any Epilachna yet described ; in colour it is a 

 little like E. extrema, but the strongly elevated tumid disk of the elytra is unlike any- 

 thing known to me in this genus, if we except a much smaller very peculiar species 

 from Ecuador *. Numerous examples were obtained. 



* Epilachna pustulifera, n. sp. — Late ovata, nigra, subopaca, tenuiter pubescens ; elytris quam prothorax 

 duplo latioribus, marginibus praesertim ad humeros, late expansis, singulis in medio juxta suturam, in 

 tuberculum corallinum elevatis. Long. 8 millim. 



Hab. Colombia, Medellin. 



This remarkable insect cannot be mistaken for any other yet described. The blood-red tubercles, one on 

 each elytron near the middle of the suture, take their rise iD an oblong spot of the same colour. The general 

 form is that of the "E. proteus " group. It is slightly pubescent. 



Two specimens. 



