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fcre thiplo brevior, antjce Intc rotundatus, postice utrinque 

 lcviter sinuatus, extrorsurn sensim obliquus, lobo medio 

 lato, modice producto, apice truncato, utrinque impresso; 

 supra%paullo convexus, vix punctatus, flavus, sub-nitidus, 

 plaga basali sat magna, seinicirculari, rufa, antice late 

 nigro-marginata ; margine explanato, confertim reticulato. 

 Scutellum laive, flavum, parum nitidum. Elytra antice 

 singulatim leviter sinuata, prothorace multo latiora et 

 duplo longiora, iuuneris antrorsum modice prominulis, 

 apice sub-rotundatis; pone basin nonnihil ampliata, a 

 medio sensim angustata, apice conjunctim rotundata, supra 

 modiee convexa, dorso profunde, sub-remote punctato- 

 striata, striis tribus interioribus pone medium profundio- 

 ribus; fiava, sub-nitida, annulo magno, sat lato, sangui- 

 neo, utrinque nigro-raarginato, medio extrorsum et in— 

 trorsum emarginato, apicem versus latiore, ibique utrinque 

 oblique truncato, maculam magnam, ovatam, pone medium 

 nonnihil dilatatam, flavam includente ; margine valde expla- 

 nato, reticulato. Corpus subtus obsolete, transversim stri- 

 olatum, flavum, sub-nitidum. Pedes remote punctulati, 

 flavi, sub-nitidi. 



82. purpurea: rotundata, modice convexa, dilute flava, 

 nitida; prothorace loevi, basi lineola transversa scutel- 

 liique ferrugineis; elytris ultra medium mediocriter, dein 

 subtilius, remotius striato-punctatis, dorso plaga sat 

 magna, communi, rotunda, sanguinea, medio maculam 

 parvam, rotundam, flavam includente; margine late ex- 

 plauato, hyalino, confertim reticulato; humeris antror- 

 sum modice prominulis, apice sub-obtusis. — Long. G, 

 lat. o^ millim. 



Cassida purpurea Linn. Syst. Nnl. 1, II, p. 576,12. — ed. Gmi. 

 1, IV, p. 1639, 12. — Fabr. Syst. Kl. I, p. 393, 32. — 

 De Giitn hre. V, p. 190, 16. Tab. 15, f. 19. — Thunb. 

 Nov. Ins. Spec. p. 87. Tab. 5, f. 98. — Hbbbst Naturs. VIII, 

 p. 266. Tab. 132, f. 9. — Ouv. Encycl. meth. Ins. V, 

 p. 381, 20. — Entomol. VI, p. 966, 73, 97. Tab. 6, f. 

 91. — Schoenh. Syn. Ins. II, p. 217, 40, 41. 



Coptocycla concentrka Dei. Cat. ed. 3, p. 373. 



