238 C0CCINELLID2E. 



3. Epilachna plagiata. (Tab. XIII. fig. 3.) 



Oblongo-ovafca, valde convexa, nigra, nitida, dense brevissime pubescens ; elytrorum marginibus modice expla- 

 natis, in medio latissimis, disco macula magna transversa plagaque lata versus apicem, juxta suturam 

 sanguineis ornato. Long. 10 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet {Champion). 



Oblong-ovate, the thorax narrower, but not very strikingly so, than the base of the 

 elytra, and hence the oval outline is not much interrupted at their junction. The 

 expanded edge of the elytra is widest in the middle and narrowed towards the base 

 and the apex. Their disk is extremely closely, finely and evenly punctured, and thickly 

 clothed with a pubescence that does not prevent their surface shining. The blood-red 

 patches are very distinctly marked : the basal pair look as if they would form a fascia, 

 but are abbreviated externally, and are interrupted at the suture ; the posterior pair 

 are twice as long as wide, rather pointed towards the apex. 



4. Epilachna erichsoni. 



Epilachna erichsoni, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 58 \ 

 Hab. Panama, Veragua (Mus. Berol.) 1 . 



I have not seen the type of this species. It must be near to the insect here described 

 as E. plagiata, but the elytra in E. erichsoni are described as being " dark metallic 

 green," and the insect from Chiriqui is larger. 



B. Elytra ovate, widest a little above the middle. 



5. Epilachna olivacea. 



Epilachna olivacea, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 808 1 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 62 (pars) 2 . 



Hab. Mexico 1 2 , Cordova (H'dge), Toxpam (Salle) ; Guatemala (Salle), Ostuncalco 

 7500 feet, Totonicapam 8500 to 10,500 feet, Quiche Mountains 7000 to 8000 feet 

 (Champion). 



We received a series of twenty-five examples from Ostuncalco, showing very little 

 variation in size and colour ; others from Mexico or Guatemala in the Salle collection 

 are darker, but of the same form and size. Three of the five examples placed under 

 E. olivacea in the Cambridge Museum belong to E. obscurella, which appears to me to 

 be more nearly allied to E. varivestis, but separable from both it and E. olivacea by the 

 black legs and tropin. 



6. Epilachna picescens. 



Oblongo-ovatis, picea, superne nigro-picea ; prothorace maculis tribus piceis aegre distinctis ; elytrorum mar- 

 ginibus modice expansis, dilutioribus. Long. 11 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 



Larger, more widely ovate, and with the margins more widely expanded than in 



