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late on its front margin; Ihe suture is more narrowly black in the 

 Nilgiri example. 



Chilocorus circumdatus Schônh., Syn. Ins., II, p. 152; Mais., 

 Spec. Col. Trim. Sécur., p. 186. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills (H.-L. Andrewes). 



This insect wliich I had net seen before, is almost exactiy a replica 

 of examples of a Chilocorus from Old Calabar in my collection from 

 Miirray's, named C. discoideus by Crotch. The types of C. discoideus 

 Cr. it is necessary to observe however, had the thorax black. The 

 Àfrican insect is wider, with a more widely expanded elytral 

 margin, which is also more widely black. 



Five examples were sent by M. Andrewes. 



Chilomenes sexmaculcUa Fabr. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills (H.-L. Andrewes). 



Briimns siituralis Fabr., Crotch. Rev., p. 195. 

 Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills (H.-L. Andrewes). 



I hâve recorded what seems identical with this species from 

 Somaliland. 



Epilachna Delesserii Guér. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 42; Muls., Spec. 

 Col. Trim., Sécur., p. 747; Crotch, Rev. Coccin., p. 79. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills. 



Var. Sutura pone médium haud nigra. 



Hah. India, Anamalais Hills (H.-L. Andrewes); 1 ex. 



In this variety, the only one of the kind I hâve seen, the two pos- 

 terior discal red patches are not divided at the suture and the 

 anterior or humerai patch, has a ramus from the base partly divi- 

 ding it, whereas in typical examples there are two basai red 

 patches. In three examples from the Nilgiris, they are united into 

 one. 



Epilachna Andre"wesi n. sp. — E. Delesserii affinis at aliter 

 depicta, rufo-fulva, elytris nigro-marginatis (apice prœtermiso) et 

 nigro-reticulato, areolas fulvas quinque, duabus subhumeralibus 

 duabus subapicalibus, una suturali communi, et apicem fulvam 

 exhibentibus; elytris forlius punctatis. — Long. 5.5-6 millim. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills, Upper slopes(H.-L. Andrewes). 



The colour of this species is that of E. Delesserii, but the pattern 

 is quite différent, and consisls of a black margin to the elytra which 

 is narrow, widening into a spot on the callus, but ceasing at the 

 apex, and of a narrow reticulale pattern forming as it were a 

 square placed diagonally on the disk, with its angles united by a 

 branch with the base, and with the margin and with a subapical 



