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12. Epilachna defecta. (Tab. xill. figg. 9, 10, 11.) 



Epilachna defecta, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 733 * ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 61 2 . 

 Epilachna fuscipes, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 735 3 . 



Eab. Mexico 1 2 3 , Alvarez Mountains (Br. Palmer), Tampico in Tamaulipas (Richard- 

 son), Orizaba, Coscomatepec, Oaxaca, Yolos, Juquila, Chiapas (Salle), Omilteme in 

 Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (E. E. Smith), Misantla (F. B. G), Jalapa, Tapachula 

 in Chiapas (Edge), Teapa in Tabasco (Edge & E. E. Smith) ; Guatemala (Salle), 

 Cbinautla and Aceituno (Salvin), Panima, Purula, Teleman, and San Juan, all in Vera 

 Paz, Duenas Capetillo (Champion) ; Honduras (Salle) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson, 

 Belt) ; Costa Rica ( Van Patten), Volcan de Irazu (Rogers) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan 

 de Chiriqui (Champion). — Colombia 123 . 



Very abundant from Southern Mexico to Colombia. The variety named fuscipes has 

 the head and thorax more or less red or yellow, and in these lighter-coloured forms the 

 body and legs are also red or pitchy-red. Usually E. defecta has the femora spotted 

 beneath or entirely pitchy-black, and the tibiae and tarsi red. An entirely black variety 

 occurs with only the tibiae and tarsi and tips of the femora, and the mouth and trophi, 

 orange-yellow. Examples of this form, with intermediate ones having only the two 

 basal yellow spots, occurred at Tapachula in Chiapas, at Capetillo, and in Costa Rica. 



We figure three examples : fig. 9, a fairly typical form from Capetillo ; fig. 10, a 

 variety from Tapachula; fig. 11, the vox. fuscipes, Muls., from Vera Cruz. 



According to Salle 2 , it lives upon Solanum nigrum. 



13. Epilachna borealis. (Tab. XIII. figg. 12-16.) 



Coccinella borealis, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 82 (1775) l ; Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 368 2 ; Mant. i. p. 58 3 ; Oliv. 



Ent. vi. p. 1021, t. 3. fig. 27 4 . 

 Epilachna borealis, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 826 5 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 64 6 . 

 Coccinella immaculicollis, Chevr. Col. Mex., Cent. i. fasc. 3, no. 100 (Nov. 1834) 7 . 

 Epilachna cequinoctialis, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 824 8 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 63 9 . 

 Epilachna particollis, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 810 10 . 

 Epilachna indiscreta, Muls. Opusc. iii. p. 107 ll . 



Coccinella 13-notata, Latr. in Humb. & Bonpl. Obs. Zool. ii. p. 67, t. 34. fig. 8 (1833) 12 . 

 Epilachna discincta, Weise, Deutsche ent. Zeitschr. 1890, p. 21 13 . 



Eab. North America 1246 , United States 5 . — Mexico 510 , Parras in Coahuila 

 (Br, Palmer), Presidio (Forrer), Ventanas and Villa Lerdo in Durango, Iguala in 

 Guererro, Huetamo in Michoacan, Cordova, Las Vigas, Jalapa, Tapachula in Chiapas 

 (Edge), Atlixco, Guanajuato, Orizaba, Toxpam, San Andres Tuxtla, Catemaco, Playa 

 Vicente, Oaxaca, Panistlahuaca (Salle), Vera Cruz and Tuxpan (Chevrolat 1 ), Chil- 

 pancingo, Venta de Peregrino, Xucumanatlan, and Rio Papagaio in Guerrero, 

 Cuernavaca in Morelos, Fortin in Vera Cruz, Teapa and Frontera in Tabasco 

 (E. E. Smith), Orizaba (//. //. S. & F. B. G.), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer); 



biol. cektr.-amer., Coleopt., Vol. VII., January 1898. 2 I* 



