126 BALLIA. 



reddish spots arranged in the letter M at the base (or spotless) ; 

 elytra ochreous, each with the margin and suture narrowly, three 

 longitudinal vittte, and a short basal streak between the first and 

 second, red-brown ; the vittee are all tree, and the first and second 

 join before the apex; the margins are largely flattened out and 

 dilated behind the shoulder. L. 4 lin. Brazil ? (Berlin), Mexico 

 (Boucard). 



Pelina. 



Muls. Spec. p. 271 (typ. Lebasii). 



Distinguished by the long antennae which have the club den- 

 tate within. Scutellum with a ceutral fold, apparently iinpuuctate; 

 elytra dilated before the middle, the humeral margin recurved. 



Pelina Lebasii. 



Pelina Lebasii, Muls. Spec. p. 271. 1 (T). 

 Columbia. Apparently rare. 



Pelina Borrei, sp. n. 



Black, thorax with a large irregular quadrate yellow spot at 

 the anterior angles; elytra rufo-testaceous, with a common scutel- 

 lar spot, and each with six others, black; one basal on the callus, 

 three in a transverse row arcuate posteriorly, two behind the middle 

 placed a little obliquely; exterior margin very narrowly (near the 

 spots more evidently) margined with black. L. 4 lin. Brazil 

 (Brussels). 



Palla. 



Muls. Spec. p. 273 (typ. hydropica). 

 Scutellum strongly punctured. 



Palla hydropica. 



Pelina hydropica, Muls. Spec p. 273. 2. 



-Mexico (Bouchard); apparently not rare, and at once distin- 

 guished by the strongly dilated elytra. 



Ballia. 



Muls. Op. in. p. 35 {typ. Christophori). 



Allied to Pelina ; form ovate, antenna? long, prosternum 

 compressed. [P. Gerstdckeri, .Muls. is a Mysia.] Elytra mar- 

 gined ; thorax with an impressed line following the anterior 

 margin, sometimes obsolete in the middle. 



Ballia Christophori. 



Pallia Christophori, Mids. Op. Put, m. p. 35. 1 (T). 

 Black ; a spot on the front, and two fasciae on the elytra pale 

 yellowish; the first basal, extending to the margin, but leaving 



