FAMMA' XVI. ro<'<'L\KU;ll>.K. 



Knox County; rare. July 2. A southern form known hereto- 

 fore from Maryland, South Carolina and Ohio. 



Tribe VII. EPILACIINIM. 



This tribe is represented in the I'nited States by two or three 

 large pubescent species, belonging to the single genus Epilachna. 

 They have the margin of the elytra rather strongly refiexed; epi- 

 pleunv horixontal. broadly concave; legs moderately retractile; 

 tarsa! claws cleft, the lower cusp being nearly as long as the upper 

 one. One species occurs sparingly in southern Indiana. 



XIX. EPILACHNA Chev. 1S44. (Or., ''above + woolly hair.") 



101!) CMTli. KPII.ACIIXA I;OI;I:AI,IS F;il.. Sysl. Ent.. 1775, 82. 



Very broadly oval. Pale orange ye!ln\v. shining, the pubescence short, 

 rather abundant. Tlierax with an apical ami basal black spot on the me- 



Fig. 197. 



luirtnlix: a, Lirva; '. pupa; r, uilult Id'Hlr; il, egg; e, surface of same. All highly 

 magnified. (After Chittendeii,;Bull. XIX. Div. Ent., U. S. Dep. Agr.) 



diaii line, the basal the larger, and one at each side near the margin. Ely- 

 tra each \vi1h seven black spots, three sub-basal, three median and one sub- 

 apical, the last named the largest ; the inner sub-basal and median on each 

 side uniting 1<> furm l\vo common sutural spots. Metasternum blackish, legs 

 Iiale. Length 7-8 mm. (Fig. 197.) 



Orange, IVrry. Crawford and Posey counties; frequent. April 

 ((-November !). Taken beneath bark in early spring and late fall. 

 and at other times on foliage. Hibernates in large colonies beneath 

 leaves in low ground. This insect, known as the "squash lady- 

 bird. 1 " presents a remarkable exception in food habits to other mem- 

 bers i-r the Coceiiicllid;)'. the larva- being herbivorous and feeding 

 npen the leaves of pumpkin, squash and allied plants. It is yel- 

 low, armed with Forked spines, and Feeds upon the lower side of the 

 ]''! I', while I he adult usually Feeds upon the upper surFace. They 

 first mark- out a circle or semicircle on the leaf and then feed within 



