C »»> toc vr. i. X. 99 



tfnnsversa, seeunda ante medium pnrva, sub-trian- 

 gulari, tertia pone medium, magna, difformi, apicc 

 emarginata quartaque in medio marginis interioris, 

 ovata. 



Patria: Brasilia Mus. Reg, Hohn. Dom. Com. Manner- 

 heim, Dom, Geemar et Sommer, — Var. a et b Mus. 

 Dom. Com, Manneeiieim. — Var\ d Mus. Imp. Wienn. 



Magnitudo Copt. complanatte, magis eonvexa. Caput 

 atrum, sub-nitidum, obsolete punctuiatum; oculis oblon- 

 gis, modice convexis, nigris. Antennas prothorace parum 

 longiores, nigrae, articulis £ — 5 ferrugineis, tertio secundo 

 dimidio longiore. Prothorax latitudine duplo brevior, an- 

 tice leviter, posterius uiagi-s rotundatus, basi utrinque sub- 

 sinuatus, extrorsum modice obliquus, lobo niedio lato, 

 pnrum producro, apice truncato, angulis rotundatis; supra 

 ater, sub-nitidus, laevis, disco inodice convexus, postice 

 tenuiter, obsolete canaliculatus; margine, prsesertim po- 

 sterius, late explanato, apice utrinque macula sat magna, 

 dilute testacea, interdum cum opposita conrluente. Scu- 

 tellum atruin, sub-nitidum, subtiliter, sub-remote punctu- 

 latum. Elytra prothorace dimidio latiora et 2t longiora, 

 antice singulatim leviter sinuata, humeris antrorsum haud 

 prominulis, apice leviter rotundatis; pone basin modice 

 rotundato-ampliata, lateribus apiceque circulariter rotun- 

 data, disco modiee convexa, atra, sub-nitida, subtili- 

 ter, sub-remote striato-punctata, interstitiis latis, planis, 

 lffivibus; margine late explanato, kevi. Corpus subtus 

 atrum, sub-nitidum, vix punctulatum. Pedes atri, nitidi. 



7. varicolor: sub-ovata, paullo convexa, nigra, nitida; an- 

 tennis basi rufo-testaceis; prothorace obsolete, remote 

 punctulato, margine antico late lineaque utrinque trans- 

 versa basali flavo-testaceis; eiytris remote, mediocriter 

 striato-punctatis; margine vage, sub-remote punctulato; 

 humeris antrorsum non proniinulis, rotundatis. — Long. 

 4 — U, lat. 8 — II millirn. 



Aspidomorpha varians GtiEiuN-MfeNEviLLE Icon. du Regne Anim. 

 Jns. Texfe II, p. 291. 



