Cassida. 357 



profunde, vage punctatis, punctis fundo nigris, crebre, irre- 

 gulariter flavo-testaceo-rugosis, basi ad scutelium retusis, 

 dein leviter gibbosis; margine modice explanato, oblique 

 deflexo, vage niinus profunde punctato. — Long. 6^, lat. 4 

 millim. 



Cassida jjae^ninosa BuN. Cat. of Coleopt. lus. IX. p. 146. 177. 

 Cassida ?iiuropirnctata Thoms. Arch. Entora. II. 282. 421. 



Patria: Guinea Dom. Buquet. Mus. Reg. Holm. — Gaboa 

 sec. Dom. Thomson. 



Ccmida giblnpeuni nonniliil longior et angustior. Caput 

 flavo-testaceum, sub-nitidum, subtiliter, crebre punctulatum. 

 Oculi oblongi, modice convexi, glauci. Antennae breviusculae, 

 flavo-testaceae. Protliorax longitudine fere duplo latior, antice 

 late rotundatus, postice utrinque leviter sinuatus, dein extror- 

 sum nonnihil obliquus, lobo medio vix producto, lato, apice 

 leviter rotundato, angulis obtusis; superne convexiusculus^ 

 inaequalis, sordide flavo-testaceus , sub-opacus, mediocriter, 

 crebre punctatus; margine modice explanato, parum hyalino, 

 ob§oIete reticulato. Scutellum sat magnum, flavo-testaceum, 

 sub-opacum, obsolete punctulatum. Elytra sub-triangularia, 

 prothorace nonnihil latiora, duplo et dimidio longiora, antice 

 utrinque leviter sinuata, humeris antrorsum parum prominulis, 

 apice obtusis; pone humeros fere ad apicem sensim angustata, 

 apice conjunctim rotundata, superne convexa, praesertim in 

 dorso antico, basi ad scutellum retusa, dein transversim leviter 

 gibbosa, sat profunde, rainus crebre, irregulariter punctata, 

 dorso nigra, sub-nitida, costa non procul a sutura modice 

 elevata rugulisque crebris, vario modo confluentibus, laevibus, 

 flavo-testaceis, nitidis variegata; margine modice explanato, 

 oblique deflexo, flavo-testaceo, sat profunde punctato. Corpus 

 subtus flavo-testaceum, sub-nitidum, punctulatura. Pedes flavo- 

 testacei, nitidi, obsolete punctulati. 



*215. vespertina: rotundata, convexa, supra picea vel castanea, 

 parura nitida, subtus nigra, magis nitida; antennis, capite, 

 pedibus abcTomineque maculis lateralibus flavo-testaceis ; 

 prothorace subtiliter, crebre punctuiato, aiitice transversim 

 flavo; elytris evidenter, crebre punctato-striatis, disco inae- 

 qualibus, remote rugo.sis, aiitice retusis, impressis, dein 



