Genus 155. — PLATYOMÜS. i5ri 



angustatis ; apice truncatus , supra modice convexus , obsolete 

 canaliculatus, fovea media et duabus utrinque impressus , vitta 

 in medio aliaque utrinque antice abbreviata obsolete virescentibus. 

 Scutellum minutum , trianguläre. Elytra thorace triplo longiora , 

 antice singulatim paruin rotundata , thoracis basi lere duplo 

 latiora, humeris sub-rectangulatis ; laleribus ad medium fere linea- 

 ria, dein angustata , apice ipso conjunctim rotundata, supra in- 

 sequalia , antice sub-deplanata , posterius altiora , valde declivia , 

 punctis reinolis, sat profundis , striata , interslitiis sub-convexis , 

 2° pone medium breviter elevato : setulis pra^sertim posterius hinc 

 inde adspersa , maculis obsoletis, sordide virescentibus, variegata. 

 Pedes mediocres albo - squamosi , femoribus obsolete et sordide 

 virescenti-nebulosis , tibiis albido-pilosis , tarsis subtus pallido- 

 spongiosis. — Rld. 



Genus 155. PLATYOMÜS. Schh. 



Ihij. op. 1. p. 632. gen. 8i. — Cure. Dlsp. Meth. p. 109. sub-gen. A. 



Grex I. — Tibia' omnes apice muticte (Spec. 1-24). 



Stirps I . — Scutellum parvum , trianguläre ( Spec. i -22 ). 



Manipulus I. — Elytra tuberculata, apice singulatim acuminata, 

 divergenlia; humeri lateraliter extensi, acuminati (6pec. i-ii). 



* I. P. CüLTRicoLLis. Germar. 



Oblongo-ovatus , niger, squamulis supra ferrugineis , subtus argenteis, 

 tectus , capitis rnacula utrinque pone oculos aliaque triangulari in 

 vertice atris; thorace acute carinato, transversim sulcato, supm 

 lineis duabus maculaque titrinque in basi atris ; elytris punctato- 

 striatis, maculis atris variegatis, apice deliiscentibus, mucronatis, 

 singulo in media uni-tuberculalo , humeris valde prominulis , acumi- 

 natis. 



Cyphus cultricollis. Germ. Ins. Spec. 1. p. 432. 578. 



Chlorima albiventris. Dej. Cat. Col. ed. i. p. 92. 



Platyomus nodipennis. ÜE.i. Cnt. Col. ed. 2. p. 7.f>i. ed. ?,. p. 274. 



