EPILACHNA. 55 



Epilachna fenestrata. 



Epilachna fenestrated, Er. Arch. f. Nat. xin. p. 183 (1847). T. 



Very like E. 4-plagiata, but the punctuation more irregular, 

 almost rugulose, very coarse, thorax smaller, elytra less dilated 

 at the margin, epi pleurae acuminate; shape more elongate. L. 2^ 

 lin. Peru (Berlin). 



Epilachna discoidea.* 



Epilachna discoidea, Er. Arch. f. Nat. xin. p. 183 (1847). T. 



Hemispherical, greenish-blue, elytra with a large common 

 bright red discoidal spot _pist reaching the scutellum and extending 

 to four-fifths; punctuation close, coarse punctures sparse, elytra 

 not broadly margined, epipleurae continuous. L. 2^ lin, Peru 

 (Berlin). 



Epilachna viridilineata sp. n. 



Oblong, greenish-black, elytra whitish-ochreous, evidently, not 

 thickly punctate, narrowly bordered with greenish-blue, and di- 

 vided into three unequal areolae by a line starting from the callus 

 and branching to right and left about the middle (like a re- 

 versed y); the posterior areola is thus about double the size of 

 either of the others, and is divided into two long triangles by a 

 thin line joining the y, but not apparently continuous with it. 

 L. 3| lin. Peru (Fry), Ecuador (Buckley) abundantly. 



Epilachna viridinitens sp. n. 



Oval, shoulders hai-dly dilated; bright blue-green, closely but 

 rather coarsely and nearly uniformly punctate; elytra with two 

 ochreous fasciae, one at one-third (the upper edge nearly straight, 

 broader on the margin), one at two-thirds (rather oblique, of uniform 

 width, making with its opposite a nearly straight common fascia); 

 neither of them absolutely reach the margin. L. 4 lin. Peru 

 (Fry). Abdominal plates complete, subangulate. 



Epilachna variabilis sp. n. 



Oblong, humeral angles dilated, punctuation close, large punc- 

 tures not very apparent, colour of a purplish bronze, mesosternum 

 slightly emarginate, plates obsolete ; the pattern of the elytra 

 varies extremely. 



a. With two rather large spots, one at one-third close to the 

 suture, one sub-triangular at three-fourths discoidal ; the second 

 is sometimes rounded. 



/3. With two fascia?, the first straight, only sinuate for the 

 callus, the second broader at the suture, converging forwards ; 

 neither of them touches the suture or margin. 



y. With the fasciae split into two spots each. 



8. With the upper and lower pairs of spots united by narrow 

 lines. 



