256 [Septembeb 



longated into an acute spine; beneath testaceous, minutely punctured, 

 clothed with golden pubescence ; head, back of the gular suture deeply 

 excavated ; margin of the episterna of the metathorax, and posterior 

 eoxal plates, piceous ; tips of the femora and tibiae black ; tibiae armed 

 with two long acute spurs; tarsi black. Length 8f lines. 

 From J. H. B. Bland. 



Epilachna maculiventris, n. sp. 

 Fulvous ; subopaque, each elytron marked with eight black spots. 

 Hah. Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila.) 



Body fulvous, subopaque, clothed with yellowish pubescence ; head 

 closely punctured, eyes black, mandibles black ; antennae light yellow, 

 terminal joints brownish. Thorax densely punctured, about twice 

 as wide as long, densely punctured, lateral margins slightly rounded, 

 somewhat narrowed in front ; lateral margins dark brown. Scutellum 

 black. Elytra densely punctured, each elytron marked with eight black 

 spots in the following order : three near the base, the central one slightly 

 nearer the tip, three on the centre forming a transverse row, two on 

 posterior fourth, the lateral spot nearest the tip ; the spot on the hume- 

 rus is elevated and somewhat shining ; epipleurae brownish ; beneath, 

 roughly punctured ; prothorax fulvous ; mesothorax, metathorax and 

 the 1th to 4th of the abdominal segments piceous ; a fulvous lateral 

 spot on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th abdominal segments ; two apical seg- 

 ments and legs fulvous. Length 82 lines. 



Two specimens examined, in one of which the thorax is slightly 

 darker on the disk above. 



From Mr. Chas. Wilt. 



