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tata; scutello nigro; elytris mediocriter, minus regula- 

 riter striato-punctatis, tlisco plaga magna communi, 

 nigra, maculis quatuordecim inaequalibus, flavis ornata; 

 margine late explanato, hyalino, reticuJato; humeris, 

 sub-angulatis. — Long. C — 7, lat. 5 — C millim. 



Coplocyda ambigena Dej. Cat. ed. 3, p. 37 2. 



Var. a: elytris maculis duabus posticis in singulo con- 

 tiguis, arcum angustum formantibus. 

 Patria: Brasilia Mus. Reg. Holm. 



Magnitudo fere Copt. dorsosignatce. Caput dilute fla- 

 vum, nitidum, sub-remote punctatum; fronte leviter im- 

 pressa; ore ferrugineo; oculis oblongis, modice convexis, 

 nigris. Antennas sat longaB, tenues, flavre, extrorsum pa- 

 rum incrassata;, apice haud vel leviter infuscataa, articulo 

 tertio secundo tenuiore, dimidio fere longiore. Prothurax 

 latitudine dimidio brevior, antice late, posterius magis 

 rotundatus, basi utrinque leviter sinuatus, extrorsum pa- 

 rum obliquus, lobo medio lato, paullo producto, apice 

 truncato, angulis rotundatis; supra modice convexus, lae- 

 vis, dilute flavus, nitidus, disco postico plaga magna, 

 nigra, semicirculari, ad lobum macula sat magna, ovata, 

 flava notata; margine sat late explanato, hyalino, con- 

 fertim reticulato. Scutellum nigrum, nitidum, la?ve. EJytra 

 prothorace multo latiora et duplo longiora, antice utrinque 

 leviter sinuata, humeris modice prominulis, sub-angulatis, 

 antice nonnihil rotundatis; pone basin parum ampliata, 

 infra medium citius, apice conjunctim Jate rotundata, su- 

 pra convexa, disco mediocriter, sub-remote, minus regu- 

 lariter striato-punctata, plaga magna communi, nigra, in 

 singulo maculis septem inaequalibus, sulj-elevatis, flavis, 

 una in ipsa ljasi rotunda, quatuor non procul a sutura, 

 quarum prima prope basin, ovata, secunda mox ante me- 

 dium, reliquis majore, tertia in medio, parva, introrsum 

 magis locata, quarta infra medium, transversa binisque 

 in disco exteriore, una non procul a basi, altera mox 

 infra medium, oblongis; margine late explanato, hyalino, 

 confertim reticulato. Corpus subtus subtiliter, crebre 

 punctulatum, flavo-testaceum, nitidum; abdomine nigro, 



