ASPIDOMORPHA. 263 



*35. inadagascarica (Dejean.) Bun. Mon. Cassid. II. p. 275. 31. — 



Cat. ot Culuopt. Ins. IX. p 109. .32. 



Patria: Madagascar. 



36. inscuipta: sub-ovalis, modice convexa, rufo-testacea, ni- 

 tida; antennarum articulo ultimo nigro; protliorace sub- 

 laevi, margine dilutiore; elytris remote, parum profunde 

 striato-punctatis , pone scutellum leviter gibbosis, dorso 

 plaga magna, rufo-testacea, utrinque ramulos duos, medio- 

 criter latos in marginem emittente; margine intus macula 

 magna oblonga, albido-hyalina notato, limbo late flavo- 

 testaceo. — Long. 9, lat. ^\ millim. 

 Patria: Senegallia. A Dom, Chevrolat ad describendum 

 communicata. 



Aspid. tectae proxima, ovalis, corpore subtus immaculato, 

 elytris pone basin evidenter gibbosis, limbo late flavo-testaceo 

 ab illa distincta. Caput rufo-testaceum , nitidum, obsolete 

 punctulatum; ore nigro-piceo. Oculi ovati, modice convexi, 

 nigri. Antennae flavo-testaceae, articulo ultimo nigro. Pro- 

 tborax latitudine fere duplo brevior, antice semicirculariter 

 rotundatus, basi utrinque leviter sinuatus, dein extrorsum 

 nonnihil obliquus, lobo medio lato, parum producto, apice 

 truncato, angulis sub-rectis; superne convexiusculus, nitidus, 

 laevis, dorso rufo-testaceus ; margine late explanato, dilutiore, 

 sub-hyalino, confertim reticulato. Scutellum rufo-testaceum, 

 nitidum, laeve. Elytra prothorace latiora et duplo longiora, 

 antice singulatira leviter sinuata, humeris antrorsum parum 

 prominulis, leviter rotundatis; pone basin nonnihil ampliata et 

 pone medium sensim, apice conjunctim late rotundata, superne 

 modice convexa, subtiliter, remote striato-punctata, pone scu- 

 tellum gibbo brevi, obtuso, quara in A tecta tamen evideu- 

 tiore, dorso plaga niagna coraniuni, rufo-testacea, utrinque 

 raraulos duos, mediocriter latos, concolores, in marginera emit- 

 tente, unum basalem, alterura inter mediura et apiceni ; margine 

 late explanato, intus inter raraulos macula magna, oblonga, 

 albido-hyalina notato, limbo late flavo-testaceo. Corpus subtus 

 rufo-testaceum, nitidum, punctulatum. Pedes rufo-testacei, 

 punctulati. 



