(Jharidotis. 369 



II. Elytra dorso flava, castaneo-marginata. 



3. Mnizecki: sub-rotundata, convexa, nitida, subtus dilute 

 miniata; antennarum articulis tribus ultimis nigris; protho- 

 race laevi, dilute flavescenti, basi brunneo-variegato; scu- 

 tello nigro-piceo; elytris castaneis, dorso plaga magna, 

 communi, oblongo-quadrata, longe ultra medium continuata, 

 profunde, minus regulariter punctato-striata, flava, pone 

 basin ruga transversa instructa ornatis, disco exteriore 

 subtiliter punctato-striatis ; margine laevi. — Long. *7\, lat. 

 6 millim. 



Patria: Cayeuna. Mus. Dom. Com. Mnizeck. 



Primo intuitu Porphyrasp. Erhardti similis, nonnihil 

 major, antennis longioribus, prothorace antice non emarginato, 

 elytris medio non tuberculatis ab illa mox distincta. Caput 

 testaceum, nitidum, vix punctulatum. Oculi ovati, convexi, 

 uigri. Antennae testaceae, articulis tribus ultimis nigro-fuscis, 

 apicali subtus dilutiore. Prothorax longitudine fere duplo latior, 

 antice leviter, ad latera subito rotundatus, postice utrinque 

 leviter sinuatus, lobo medio lato, parum producto, apice trun- 

 cato, angulis rotundatis; superne laevis, nitidus, dorso modice 

 convexus, margine antico lateribusque late dilute flavo-mar- 

 ginatus, remote reticulatus, postice brunneo-variegatus. Scu- 

 tellum nigro-piceum, nitidum, laeve. Eiytra antice singulatim 

 leviter sinuata, prothorace nonnihil latiora, illo duplo et 

 dimidio longiora, humeris antrorsum parum prominulis, sub- 

 angulatis; pone basin nonnihil rotundato-ampliata, pone me- 

 dium citius rotundato-angustata, apice conjunctim late rotun- 

 data, superne convexa, castanea, nitida, dorso plaga magna, 

 communi, oblongo-quadrata, a basi longe ultra medium con- 

 tinuata, flava, profunde, minus regulariter, sat crebre punctato- 

 striata, pone basin rugula brevi, transversa instructa, disco 

 exteriore subtiliter, remotius punctato-striata; margine sat 

 late explanato, oblique deflexo, laevi, ante medium impresso. 

 Corpus subtus -diiute miniatum, sub-nitidum, obsolete punctu- 

 latum. Pedes dilute miniati, nitidi; unguiculis tarsorum nigro- 

 fuscis. 



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