Cassida. 315 



90. depicta: rotundata, modice convexa, dilute flavescens, ni- 

 tida; prosterno pectoreque nigris; prothorace remote pun- 

 ctulato, basi plaga sat magna, nigra, antice sub-truncata, 

 utrinque leviter emarginata, postice utrinque raacula sub- 

 triangulari, in lobo cum opposita conjuncta, flava notata; 

 elytris profunde, crebre punctato-striatis, dorso nigris, ir- 

 regulariter flavo-rugosis, ad scutellum utrinque impressis, 

 dein ruga transversa instructis; margine sat late expla- 

 nato, parum deflexo, remote punctato; huraeris paullo pro- 

 rainulis, sub-angulatis. — Long. 5, lat. 4i millim. 



Patria: Africa occidentalis (Old Calabar). A Dora. Murray 

 ad describendum missa. 



Statura et summa similitudine Cassidae irregidaiis, pro- 

 thorace aliter signato, prosterno pectoreque nigris ab illa di- 

 stincta. Caput flavo-testaceura, nitidum, obsolete punctula- 

 tum, supra os transversim infuscatum. Oculi oblongi, rao- 

 dice convexi, nigri. Antennae flavescentes, articulis ultirais 

 saturatioribus. Prothorax omnino ut in Cassida irregulari 

 constructus, remotius punctulatus, dilute flavescens, nitidus, 

 basi plaga sat raagna, nigra, antice fere truncata, utrinque 

 leviter sinuata, postice utrinque raacula sub-triangulari, in 

 lobo cura opposita conjuncta, dilute flava notata. Scutellum 

 flavum, sub-nitidum, obsolete punctulatura. Elytra protho- 

 race latiora et plus duplo longiora, antice utrinque leviter si- 

 nuata, humeris antrorsura raodice prorainulis, sub-angulatis; 

 pone basin parum ampliata, pone medium magis, apice con- 

 junctim late rotundata, superne modice convexa, profunde, 

 crebre punctato-striata, interstitiis angustis, sub-convexis ; sin- 

 gulo elytro ad scutellum sat profunde impresso, pone impres- 

 sionera ruga communi, transversa; dorso nigra, rugulis flavis, 

 hinc inde confluentibus variegata; raargine late explanato, 

 parum deflexo, dilute flavescenti-hyalino, reraote, vage pun- 

 ctato. Corpus subtus punctulatum, nitidura; prosterno pecto- 

 reque nigris; abdomine flavo-testaceo. Pedes flavi, nitidi, ob- 

 solete punctulati. 



*91, amorijica: ovata, raodice convexa, flava, nitida; anten- 

 narum articulis sex ultimis nigris; prothorace in disco mi- 

 nus crebre, distincte punctato, postice macula oblonga, 



