10 ('. II A l; I L)0 T I S. 



Charid. luteolce magnitudine aequaJis, nonnihil taraen 

 liitior. Caput subtiliter, crebre punctulatura, saturate 

 flavum, nitidum; oculis ovatis, modice convexis, nigris. 

 Antennae mediocres, sub-tenues, flavae, articulis duobus 

 ultimis same nigro-fuscis. Prothorax latitudine dimidio 

 brevior, antice lateribusque late rotundatus, postice utrin- 

 que sinuatus et dein extrorsum nonnihil oblique trunca- 

 tus, lobo medio lato, retroraum paulJo producto, apice 

 truncato; supra modice convexus, sub-la3vis, saturate fla- 

 vus, nitidus, basi plaga sat magna, semicirculari, nigra, 

 antice leviter emarginata, postice in lobo interdum san- 

 guineo-marginata. Scutellum sanguineum, nitidum, la?ve. 

 Elytra antice singulatim levitcr sinuata, prothorace lati- 

 ora et fere %k longiora, humeris antrorsum modice pro- 

 minulis, sub-acutis; pone basin ad medium modice ro- 

 tundato-ampliata, dein sensim angusfata, apice conjunctim 

 rotundata, supra valde convexa, regulariter, mediocriter, 

 sub-remote striato-punctata, saturate flava, nitida, a basi 

 ad medium plaga magna, transversa, communi, sanguinea, 

 extus late nigro-marginata, et pone medium plaga altera 

 etiam transversa, communi, nigra, apice rotundata, fascia 

 angusta, sub-arcuata, flava, aureo-micante, profundius 

 punctata separatis; margine modice explanato, confertim 

 reticulato. Corpua subtus flavo-testaceum, subtiliter pun- 

 ctulatum et transversim striolatum. Pedes flavo-testacei; 

 unguiculis ferrugineis. 



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

 sanguinea; prothorace la^vi, flavo, basi plaga sat magna, 

 semicirculari scutelloque sanguineis; eiytris evidenter 

 striato-punctatis, dorso antico sanguineis, postico nigris, 

 medio fascia transversa, communi, rude punctata, flava, 

 aureo-micante-; margine modice explanato, flavo; humeris 

 antrorsum modice prominulis. — Long. 6, lat. 5| 

 millim. 

 Cassida tricolor Guerin Mag. de Zool. 18.31, Ins. pl. 31. 



Patria: Cayenna. Mus. Dom. Guerin-Mineville. 



Primo intuitu Cliarid. aundentct' similis, nonnihil mi- 



nor, magis rotunda, aliter colorata, elytris evidentius stri- 



