. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. THE BEAX LADYBIRD. d width. The color of the newly developed adult is yellow, gradu- ally darkening with age to a grayish brown. Each elytron or wing- cover is marked with eight small black spots of variable size. Technical descriptions of the genus and species follow: Genus Epilachxa. Large, pubescent species related to Chilocorus. Sides of prothorax only slightly curved and broadly explanate; those of elytra rather strongly re- flexed; epipleura* horizontal, broadly concave, not distinctly extended to sutural apex. M
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. THE BEAX LADYBIRD. d width. The color of the newly developed adult is yellow, gradu- ally darkening with age to a grayish brown. Each elytron or wing- cover is marked with eight small black spots of variable size. Technical descriptions of the genus and species follow: Genus Epilachxa. Large, pubescent species related to Chilocorus. Sides of prothorax only slightly curved and broadly explanate; those of elytra rather strongly re- flexed; epipleura* horizontal, broadly concave, not distinctly extended to sutural apex. Metasternal and ventral lines well-defined, legs moderately re- tractile ; femora not deeply sulcate beneath, tibia? with an acute external edge, and shallow groove for reception of tarsi; claws cleft, with lower cusp nearly as long as upper. EPZLACHXA COBBTJPTA Form oblong, more narrowly oval than borealis and distinctly smaller, dull In luster, densely pubescent, and very closely, unequally punctate; color gray- ish brown; head and pronotum without spots. Each elytron ornamented with. Fig. 1.—The bean ladybird (Epilaehna corrupta) : a, Larva; ft, beetle; c, pupa; d, egg mass. About three times natural size. eight spots or dots of varying size in three rows; three small sub-basal spots in a broken row, median less basal; three in a transverse subparallel row just before the middle, usually larger than sub-basal, median usually a little larger, and two near apical fourth, placed near inner fourth and outer third. Lower surface darker or concolorous with legs, which are pale throughout. Length mm.; width mm. The so-considered Mexican variety, E. varipes differs mainly from the species under discussion as it occurs north of Mexico in having the two subapical spots united or coalescing, forming an arcuate fascia. All spots are also larger and surrounded by a lighter aureole. The typical varivestis. as figured by Gorham, shows these aureoles, but the
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