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municated by the Barao do Castello de Paiva. My own Toneriffun 

 specimens are principally from the vicinity of S*'^ Cruz and the hills 

 above it, Taganana, and Orotava. 



Genus 251. EPILACHNA. 



Chevrolat, Diet. Univ. (VHist. Nat. iv. 43 (1844). 



651. Epilaclina 4-plagiata, n. sp. 



E. nitida, oculo fortissimo armato minutissime et parce punctulata 

 necnon (saltem in prothorace elytrorumque limbo) siibtilissime 

 pubescens, nifo-testacea, capite, prothoraeis disco (linea media 

 interdum excepta) elytrorumque marginibus angustissimis et ma- 

 culis parvis duabus in singulis positis plus minus nigrescentioribus ; 

 elytris tenuiter margiiiatis, ad humeros rotundatos latis, prothorace 

 multo latioribus.— Long. corp. lin. 1-|— 1^. 



Habitat in aridis arenosis Fuerteventurse, rarissima. 



The almost imperceptibly punctulated, rufo-testaceous surface of 

 this species, which has its head and prothoracic disc more or less 

 blackened, or infuscated, as well as two small spots, or dashes (one 

 anterior, and the other posterior), on each of its elytra darker, will 

 sufficiently disting-uish it. The latter (which are considerably broader 

 at their base than the prothorax) have their humeral angles porrect 

 and very obtusely rounded, and their suture and outer margins are 

 most narrowly black. The only three specimens which I have seen 

 were captured by myself in the arid, sandy district at Corralejo, in 

 the extreme north of Fuerteventui'a, during the spring of 1859. 



652. Epilachna bella, n. sp. 



E. nitidissima, paulo distinctius (sed tamen minutissime) punctulata 

 necnon (saltem in prothorace elytrorumque limbo) subtilissime 

 pubescens, nigra, prothoraeis lateribus elytrorumc^ue margine la- 

 teraU ab humeris usque ad medium et maculis duabus magnis sub- 

 confiuentibus in singulis positis, rufo-testaceis ; elytris sat grosse 

 marginatis, rotundatioribus, ad humeros rotundatos prothorace 

 parum latioribus. — Long. corp. lin. vix l^-. 



Habitat Canariam Grandem, in arenosis ad Maspalomas capta. 



The black and very shining upper surface of this Epilachna, which 

 has the edges of its prothorax, and half of the lateral margins of its 

 elytra (i. e. from either shoulder to about the middle), as well as two 

 large subconfluent patches on the disc of each of the latter, rufo-tes- 

 taceous, will serve to characterize it. Although very minutely so, it 

 is rather more evidently punctulated than the E. A-plagiata ; and its 

 elytra are more rounded at the sides (and therefore not so immensely 

 wider at their extreme base than the prothorax), and arc also more 



