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tate, anterior angles narrowly orange ; elytra blue, thickly un- 

 equally punctate ; apex with a small elongate orange patch ; 

 first ventral segment sparingly but deeply punctate. 

 2^ lin. Bogota. 



Eupalea pulchra, sp. n. 



Testaceous yellow, thorax blue, with the sides broadly 

 orange ; elytra blue, closely punctate, with an orange spot a 

 little before the apex reaching the outer margin. 



L. 2 lin. Venezuela (Brussels, Fry). 



Eupalea picta. 



Coccinella picta, Guer. Icon. R. A. p. 319 (T). 

 Eupalea picta, Muls. Spec. p. 890. 2. 

 Mexico (Guerin). 



Eupalea Reinhardtii, sp. n. 



Oval, thickly pubescent ; pale ochreous-yellow ; the margins of 

 the thorax and elytra (and the suture) tinged with a delicate pink, 

 fading into the ground colour ; the elytra each with two small 

 black dots, one on the callus, one close to the margin at f ; the 

 under side ochreous, epipleune tinged with pink ; first ventral seg- 

 ment deeply and rather more closely punctured. L. 2h lin. 



Sete Lagos (Copenhagen, Deyrolle). 



Eupalea Suffriani. 



Eupalea Suffriani, Muls. SjJec. p. 891. 3. 

 Brazil, S. Paulo, Rio Janeiro (Fry). 



Eupalea Fryii, sp. n. 



Very close to E. Suffriani, but with five spots on each elytron. 

 The first is parallel and not attenuate ; the second begins at the 

 callus, parallel to the first, and is divided in two ; the third does 

 not meet the suture, but is attenuated to a point, and a supple- 

 mentary one intervenes beyond the first and between the third 

 and the suture. L. 2\ lin. Brazil, Rio Janeiro (Fry). 



Eupalea intermedia, sp. n. 



This may be only a variety of the last ; the second spot is not 

 divided ; the third and fifth are united at their apex. 

 Brazil (Deyrolle). 



Eupalea conglomerata, sp. n. 



Pale ochreous-yellow; thorax with five indistinct brown spots; 

 elytra each with two pitchy brown irregular patches ; the first 

 quadrangular, produced at the posterior internal angle into a 



