Cassida. 339 



instructo; margine niodice explanato, oblique deflexo, ob- 

 solete punctulato, longe pone medium macula nigro-fusca 

 notato. — Loug. 4, lat. 3\ millim. 



Cassida denticulata Bhn. Cat. of Coleopt. Ins. IX. p. 137. 123. 

 Patria: Nova Hollandia. Mus. Dom. Baly. 



Statura Cassidae . pulvinatae, minor. Caput testaceum, 

 nitidum, subtiliter, crebre punctulatum; ore nigro-piceo. Oculi 

 oblongi, modice convexi, nigri. Antennae basi tenues, flavo- 

 testaceae, articulis quinque ultimis nigro-fuscis, Prothorax 

 latitudine dimidio brevior, antice rotttndatus, postice utrinque 

 leviter sinuatus, dein extrorsum modice obliquus, lobo medio 

 lato, parum producto, apice truncato, angulis rotundatis; 

 superne sub-Iaevis, flavo-testaceus, parum nitidus, dorso mo- 

 dice convexus; margine sat late explanato, paullo hyalino, 

 confertim reticulato. Scutellum flavo-testaceuni, sub-nitidum, 

 laeve. Elytra pmthorace nonnihil latiora at vix duplo lon- 

 giora, antice utrinque leviter siauata, humeris antrorsum 

 parum prominulis, apice leviter rotundatis; pone basin non- 

 nihil rotundato-ampliata, pone medium sensim, apice conjun- 

 ctim late rotundata, ad suturam dente parvo acuto armata, 

 superne valde convexa, crebre, profunde punctato-striata, 

 interstitiis leviter convexis, laevibus; flavo-testacea, sub-nitida, 

 ad suturam et in disco postico maculis nonnullis parvis, ob- 

 soletis, fuscis; margine modice explanato, oblique deflexo, parum 

 hyalino, obsolete punctato, confertim reticulato, pone medium 

 leviter impresso, inter medium et apicem macula mediocri, 

 sub-rotunda, nigra. Corpus subtus nigrum, nitidum, subtiliter 

 punctulatum; prosterno macula basali margineque abdominis 

 anguste flavo-testaceis. Pedes flavo-testacei, punctulati, coxis, 

 trochanteribus femoribusque posticis ima basi leviter infu- 

 scatis. 



*154. semiglohosa (BHN.) Bhx. Mon. Cassid. II. p. iil. lOi — Cat, 

 of Coleopt. Ins. IX. p. 137. 124. . 



Patria: Caffi-aria. 



*155, bis-trilimata (BHN.) Bhn. Mon. Cassid. II. p. ii'i. 105.— Cat of 

 Coleopt. Ins. IX. p. 137. 12J. 



Patria: Montevideo, Buenos Ayres. 



