EPILACHNA. 6!) 



Epilachna Zetterstedtii. 



Epilachna Zetterstedtii, Mule. Spec. p. 830. 100 (T). 



Caffraria (Stockholm), Cape (Fry). This appears to me to be 

 possibly a variety of one of the preceding, in which the reticulation 

 has disappeared leaving black dots. 



(3. Ovate, thoracic epipleurse foveolate for the antenna?, 

 opaque. 



Epilachna pavonia. 



Coccinella pavonia, Oliv. Ent. vr. p. 1059. 112. T. vn. f. 117. 



Epilachna pavonia, Muls. Spec. p. 811. 86. 



Madagascar ; abundant and very variable. The colouration is 

 precisely that of the Mexican E. varivestis. Abdominal laminae 

 complete, rather ogival, covering two-thirds of the segment, epi- 

 pleurse acuminate before the apex. 



y. Oblong ovate, dilated at the shoulders, unequally punc- 

 tate, dark green with orange spots. 



Epilachna duodecim-pustulosa. 



Epilachna \2-pustidosa, Muls. Spec. p. 743. 33. 

 Caffraria. 



Epipleura? concave, subhorizontal, extending to about five- 

 sixths, plates complete; spots 1 (basal), 2, 2, 1, and an apical dash. 



Epilachna Schonherri.* 



Epilachna Schonherri, Muls. Spec. p. 749. 37 (T). 



Closely allied to E. \2-pustulosa, and by no means to E. Parryi 

 as Mulsant appears to have thought. It is evidently a variety 

 with a red thorax and incomplete design. Caffraria (Wahlberg). 



Epilachna hirta. 



Coccinella hirta, Thunb. Nov. Ins. Spec. I. p. 23, f. 55 (1781). 



Epilachna hirta, Muls. Spec. p. 756. 44. 



Coccinella 12-verrucata, Fabr. Syst. El. i. p. 385. 151 (1801). 



Coccinella guttato-fasciata, Gold/. Enum. Ins. C. B. S. p. 40, 

 f. 3 (1805). 



Epilachna discors, Mids. Spec. p. 819. 94. 



Ep>ilachna invalida, Muls. Spec. p. 821. 



Epilachna Chenoni, Muls. Spec. p. 821. 95 (T). 



This species is extremely abundant and very variable ; I have 

 evidence for the reunion of the forms quoted above., and possibly 

 some others are hardly distinct ; it occurs over the whole of Africa ; 

 Abyssinia, Madagascar, Natal, Caffraria, Guinea. Plates complete, 

 ejiipleura? horizontal. 



Epilachna raptor, sp. n. 



Head and thorax red, elytra with five red spots, two placed 

 across at onc-fit'th, two across the middle, and one subapical; legs 



