the Coceinellidaj of Japan. 25 



Epilachna 28-punctata, Fabricius. 



Cuccinella 28-punctata, Fabr. Syst. Eut. p. 34 (1775). 



Crotch labelled some of my specimens from South Japan 

 U E. 28-punctata, F.," and they are different to those I found 

 near Yokohama and other places more in the north, and which 

 I refer to E. 28-?naculata, Motsch. The differences are 

 chiefly in size and colour generally and in the form of the 

 thorax, which in E 28-maculata is more markedly transverse, 

 and the shoulders also are wider. Crotch remarks of 

 E. 28-punctata, F., " This species varies almost to infinity, 

 and gradually runs into the common six-spotted type, so that 

 1 cannot give any structural differences ; " but Crotch, so far 

 as I know, never saw typical specimens of E. 28-maculata 

 nor any examples from the north. 



Hab. Nagasaki and Konose*. Oshima (Oberthilr). 



Epilachna admirabilis, Crotch. 

 Epilachna admirabilis, Crot. Re vis. Coc. p. 81 (1874). 



This species is described by Crotch as being like E. macu- 

 laris, Muls. ; the head is immaculate and clearly punctulate ; 

 the thorax black, with the anterior angles red, lateral margins 

 and anterior border also sometimes red ; the scutellum black ; 

 the elytra ten-spotted, scutellar and discal sutural spots are 

 common to both wing-cases, in the middle of each elytron is 

 a third spot, the fourth is humeral, fifth on the middle of the 

 elytra edge, the last is before the apex ; all the spots are 

 large, and in one example in thirteen the sutural-discal and 

 the two outer spots join (this form agrees with Crotch's type, 

 which I have seen) ; the under surface and legs usually pale, 

 but the abdominal segments are sometimes partly infuscate. 

 J have not observed any sexual differences in the ventral 

 segments. 



Hab. Hakone, Nikko, and abundant at Shiba, near Tokio; 

 China {Crotch). 



Anisosticta kobensis, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovata, pallide flava ; thorace 6-nigro-punctato ; elytris 



19-punctatis, distincte punctulatis. 

 L. 3|-4 mill. 



The form and number of the spots agree very closely with 

 those of A. 19-punctata, Linn., but the general colour is 

 paler and the spots much larger ; the elytral punctuation 

 larger and much clearer, and the legs more slender. The 

 outline of the body is narrower. 



