532 



FAMILY XVI. COCCINELUDiE. 



Knox County; rare. July 2. A southern form known hereto- 

 fore from Maryland, South Carolina and Ohio. 



Tribe VII. EPILACHNINI. 



This tribe is represented in the United States by two or three 

 large pubescent species, belonging to the single genus Epilachna. 

 They have the margin of the elytra rather strongly reflexed; epi- 

 pleurse horizontal, broadly concave; legs moderately retractile; 

 tarsal claws cleft, the lower cusp being nearly as long as the upper 

 one. One species occurs sparingly in southern Indiana. 



XIX. Epilachna Chev. 1844. (Gr., "above + woolly hair.") 



1019 (3171). Epilachna boeealis Fab., Syst. Ent., 1775, S2. 



Very broadly oval. Pale orange yellow, shining, tbe pubescence short, 

 rather abundant. Thorax with an apical and basal bknk spot on the me- 



Fig. 197. BpUachna bormlis: a, larva; h, pupa; c, adult beetle; d, egg; e, surface of same. AU highly 

 magnified. (After Chittenden.'Bull. XIX, Div. Eat., U. S. Dep. .igr.) 



■dian line, the basal the larger, and one at each side near the margin. Ely- 

 tra each witli seven black spots, three sub-basal, three median and one sub- 

 apical, the last named the largest ; the inner sub-basal and median on each 

 side uniting to form two common sutural spots. Metasternum blackish, legs 

 [lale. Length 7-S mm. (Fig. 197.) 



Orange, Perry. Crawford and Posey counties; frequent. April 

 9-Xovembei- !•. Taken beneath bark in early spring and late fall, 

 and at other times on foliage. Plibernates in large colonies beneath 

 leaves in low ground. This insect, known as the "scpash lady- 

 bird," presents a remarkable exception in food habits to other mem- 

 bers of the Coccinellida?. the larva; being herbivorous and feeding 

 upon the leaves of pumpkin, squash and allied plants. It is yel- 

 low, armed w ith forked spines, and feeds upon the lowei- side of Ihc 

 leaf, while the mluit iisuall.\- feixls upon the upper surface. They 

 first mark out a circle or semicircle on the leaf and then feed within 



