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71. circinata: sub-ovata, convexa, flavo-testacea, nitida; 

 prothorace subtilissime, sub-reinote punctulato, basi 

 plaga mediocri, nigra, antice rotundata; seutello fer- 

 rugineo; elytris mediocriter, in macula dorsali rlava 

 rude, crebre punctato-striatis, annulo magno, lato, 

 communi, nigro-piceo, postice in medio ferrugineo, 

 maculam magnam, flavam, sub-ovatam cingente; mar- 

 gine modice explanato, hyalino, confertim reticulato; 

 liumeris antrorsum modice prominulis, apice sub-ob- 

 tusis. — Long. 8, lat. C millim. 



Coptocycla circindta Dej Cat. ed. 3, p. 372. 



Var. a: prothorace plaga basali rufo-ferruginea, elytris 

 annulo undique in medio obscure sanguineo. 

 Patria: Brasilia. A Dom. Com. Mannekheim et e Mus. 

 Reg. Berol. ad describendum communicata. 



Copt. consentanece ut ovum ovo simillima, nonnihil 

 major, corpore subtus toto flavo, elytris, macula flava dor- 

 sali excepta, minus profunde punctato-striatis, annulo 

 nonnihil latiore, obscuriore, humeris antrorsum magis pro- 

 nunulis, apice sub-obtusis ab illa distincta. Caput flavo- 

 testaceum, nitidum, subtiliter, crebre punctulatum; oculis 

 oblongis, modice convexis, nigris. Antenna^ mediocres, 

 flava3, extrorsum nonnihil incrassata?, articulo tertio se- 

 cundo fere breviore. Prothorax latitudine dimidio bre- 

 vior, antice late rotundatus, postice utrinque leviter si- 

 nuatus, dein extrorsum nonnihil obliquus, lobo medio 

 lato, paullo producto, apice truncato, utrinque impresso, 

 angulis rotundatis; supra convexiusculus, subtiliter, sub- 

 remote punctulatus, flavo-testaceus, nitidus, basi plaga 

 mediocri, antice late rotundata, nigra, postice in lobo 

 obsolete ferruginea; margine sat late explanato, hyalino, 

 confertim reticulato. Scutellum ferrugineum, nitidum, 

 subtiliter punctulatum, ante apicem leviter imprcssum. 

 Elytra antice singulatim leviter sinuata, prothorace non- 

 nihil latiora et duplo longiora, humeris antrorsum modice 

 prominulis, apice sub-obtusis; pone basin nonnihil rotun- 

 dato-ampliata, infra medium sensim, apice conjunctim 

 late rotuudata, supra convcxa, mediocriter, regulariter et 



