208 Coptocycla. 



vexiusculus, kevis, dilute flavus, basi plaga mediocri, se- 

 micirculari, obscure sanguinea, antice late nigro-margi- 

 nata; margine modice explanato, hyalino, remote reticu- 

 lato. Scutellum sanguineum, nitidum, la^ve. Elytra an- 

 tice singulatim leviter sinuata, prothorace latiora et duplo 

 longiora, humeris antrorsuin nonnihil prominulis, sub-acu- 

 tis; a basi ad medium rotundato-ampliata, dein angustata, 

 apice conjunctim late rotundata, supra convexa, profunde, 

 crebre punctato-striata, dorso plaga magna, communi, ob- 

 scure sanguinea, extus nigro-marginata, pone scutellum 

 annulo sat magno, angusto, ultra medium continuato, me- 

 dio sub-interrupto, flavo, nigro-marginato, maculam me- 

 diocrem, rotundam, sanguineam cingente; margine modice 

 explanato, dilute flavo, hyalino, confertim reticulato. Cor- 

 pus subtus subtiliter punctulatum, nigrum, pectore utrin- 

 que basi macula abdomineque extus late flavo-testaceis. 

 Pedes obsolete punctulati, flavi, nitidi. 



\ I 0. annulifera (Reiche) : sub-rotundata, convexa, flava, 

 nitida; prothorace lrevi, basi plaga mediocri, semicir- 

 culari, dilute sanguinea, antice anguste nigro-margi- 

 nata; scutello sauguineo; elytris profunde, crebre pun- 

 ctato-striatis, dorso plaga magna, communi, dilute san- 

 guinea, anguste nigro-marginata, annulum dorsalem, 

 latiorem, ab ipsa basi ortum, flavum includente; mar- 

 gine modice explanato, hyalino, reticulato. — Long. 5, 

 lat. 4 millim. 



Patria: Rio Janeiro Brasiliae Mus. Dom. Reiche. 



C. annulari affinis, nonnihil tamen major, minus ro- 

 tundata, colore paginre inferioris annuloque flavo dorsi 

 ab ipsa basi orto, latiori, continuo, ab illa facile distincta. 

 Caput subtiliter, crebre punctulatum, flavum, nitidum; 

 oculis oblongis, modice convexis, nigris. Antennre indivi- 

 dui descripti post articulum quintum mutilatre, flavas. Pro- 

 thorax latitudine fere duplo brevior, antice late rotunda- 

 tus, postice utrinque leviter sinuatus, dein extrorsum non- 

 nihil obliquus, lobo medio lato, paullo producto, apice 



truncato, 



