GO EPILACHNA. 



Epilachna axillaris. 



Epilachna axillaris, Mids. Spec. p. 707. 5. 

 N. Granada, Venezuela (Fry). 



More convex, punctuation more open, so that the fine punc- 

 tures are apparent, else precisely similar to E. scapular is. 



Epilachna nigrovittata sp. n. 



Ovate, almost rounded, shoulders not dilate, black, finely pu- 

 bescent ; head in front and the labrum yellow ; thorax transverse 

 rather sparingly punctate, sides concave, yellow ; elytra yellow, 

 rather coarsely and uniformly punctate, margins, suture, and two 

 vittai black; the external vitta (which is the broadest) reaches from 

 the base (passing over the callus) to the suture, which it joins at 

 five-sixths ; the inner one is free at either end; epipleune with the 

 inner half yellow; ventral segments 3 — 5 with the posterior edge 

 yellow. L. 3^ lin. Ecuador (Buckley). 



Epilachna cinctipennis sp. n. 



Closely allied to the three preceding species ; the black colour 

 of the elytra covers the basal third (enclosing a small orange 

 spot on either side the scutellum), forms a transverse fascia just 

 behind the middle (anterior edge straight, posterior oblique), and 

 an oblique triangular apical spot. L. 4| lin. Venezuela. 



Form more elongate-oval, punctuation nearly uniform, close, 

 the fine punctures difficult to observe, the epipleurse yellow at the 

 base. 



Epilachna radiata. 



Coccinella radiata, Guer. Icon. p. 318. 



Epilachna radiata, Mids. Spec. p. 701. 1. 



N. Granada. Punctuation uniform, moderately strong and 

 close, the small punctures crowded out, colour light whitish ; the 

 epipleuite are broadly pale within. 



Epilachna pictipennis sp. n. 



Resembles E. radiata, but is more strongly punctured, as in 

 E. cinctipennis. The black colour extends along the external 

 margin of the elytra to the apex, and is dilated at the humeral 

 angle, less so a little behind the middle, and again at the apex, 

 where it extends one-fourth up the suture ; it is further dilated 

 behind the scutellum into a large common bilobed spot, and forms 

 a large irregular discoidal spot in the posterior half of each elytron, 

 thus leaving a yellow reticulation. L. 4| lin. 



N. Grenada (Deyr.). 



Epilachna mutabilis sp. n. 



Regularly ovate, black, subopaque, finely pubescent, closely 

 and thickly punctulate, the large punctures abundant, but not so 



