Coptocycla. 363 



1 jH)'2. Deyrollei: rotundata, modice convexa, flava, nitida; 

 antennis artieulis dnobns ultimis nigris; prothorace 

 lsevi, basi plaga sat magna, semicireulari, nigro-picea, 

 postice in medio ferruginea; scutello sanguineo; elytris 

 mediocriter punctato-striatis, sutura basi annuloque 

 dorsali lato, comnmni, sanguineis, illo nigro-marginato, 

 extrorsum utrinque in medio sinuato-emarginato; mar- 

 gine iate explanato, basi excepto, confertim rugoso- 

 punctato; humeris apice obtusis. — Long. 7 — 8, lat. 

 6 — 7 millim. 



Var. a: sutura elytrorum ultra medium nigra, macu- 

 lam dorsalem fiavam in vittas duas elongatas divi- 

 dente. 



Patria: S:t Catharina Brasilire Mus. Reg. Holm. Dom. 

 Deyrolle et Dom. Jekel. A Dom. Com. Manner- 

 iieim ad conferendum missa. 



Copt. ccntrali statura non dissimilis, elytris evidentius 

 punctatis, aliter signatis, margine crebre rugoso-punctato. 

 Caput flavum, nitidum, subtiliter, crebre punctulatum; 

 ore ferrugineo; oculis oblongis, modice convexis, nigris. 

 Antcnna? sub-tenues, flavae, extrorsum parum incrassataa, 

 articulis duobus ultimis nigris, tertio secundo duplo lon- 

 giore. Prothorax latitudine dimidio brevior, antice late 

 rotundatus, postice utrinque leviter sinuatus, dein subito 

 valde obliquus, truncatus, iobo medio lato, nonnihil pro- 

 ducto, apice truncato, angulis rotundatis; supra convexi- 

 usculus, la?vis, flavus, nitidus, basi plaga sat magna, se- 

 micirculari, nigro-picea, postice in lobo ferruginca; mar- 

 gine late explanato, sub-hyalino, confertim reticulato. Scu- 

 tellum sanguineum, nitidum, lreve. Elytra anticc singu- 

 Jatim leviter sinuata, prothorace multo latiora et duplo 

 longiora, humcris antrorsum valde prominulis, apice ob- 

 tusis, prothoracis latera amplectentibus; pone basin non- 

 nihil ampliata, infra mcdium sensim, apice conjunctim late 

 rotundata, supra modice convexa, mediocriter, minus cre- 

 bre punctato-striata, flava, nitida, sutura basi nigro-picca, 

 dorso annulo magno lato, communi, a basi fere ad api- 

 cem disci continuato, ibiquc nonnihil latiore, toto sangu- 



