416 Coptocvcla. 



data, supra vakle convexa, pone basin ad suturam leviter 

 gibbosa, antice profundius, postice subtilius, remote stri- 

 ato-punctata, flava, nitida, annulo mediocri a gibbo fere 

 ad medium extenso, communi, minus lato, non exacte 

 rotundato, confertim, vage punctato, rufo-sanguineo; mar- 

 gine modice explanato, deflexo, dilutiori, hyalino, crebre 

 reticulato. Corpus subtus subtiliter transversim striola- 

 tum, prosterno pectoreque nigro-piceis, testaceo-variega- 

 tis, abdomine flavo. Pedes remote punctulati, flavi. 



31 4. Iris: rotundata, convexa, dilute flavo-testacea, ni- 

 tida; antennis articulo ultimo nigro; protborace antice 

 late rotundato, basi vitta transversa nigra, postice ru- 

 fo-marginata ; elytris subtiliter, sub-remote striato-pun- 

 ctatis, dorso antico obtuse gibbosis, annulo magno an- 

 gusto, nigro, maculam magnam, rotundam, roseam, fla- 

 vo-variegatam includente; sutura antice nigra; margine 

 valde explanato, hyalino, reticulato. — Long. 8, lat. 

 7| millim. 



Cassida Iris Perty Del. Anini. Brasil. p. 102. Tab. XX, f. 12. 



Patria: Bahia Dom. Sellow Mus. Reg. Berol. Seba- 

 stianopolis Dom. Perty Mus. Reg. Bavar. 



Copt. sanguinolentce statura non dissimilis, major. Ca~ 

 put flavo-testaceum, sub-nitidum, subtiliter, crebre pun- 

 ctulatum; oculis oblongis, modice convexis, nigris. An- 

 tennre tenues, flavre, articulo ultimo nigro-fusco, tertio 

 secundo non longiore sed tenuiore. Prothorax latitudine 

 fere duplo brevior, antice late rotundatus, lateribus basin 

 versus magis rotundatis; postice utrinque leviter sinuatus, 

 lobo medio lato, parum producto, apice sub-rotundato, 

 angulis obtusis; supra in dorso modice convexus, pallide 

 flavo-testaceus, nitidus, in ipsa basi vitta transversa, an- 

 tice nonnihil rotundata, postice rufo-marginata; margine 

 late explanato, ad latera confertim reticulato. Scutellum 

 dilute rufo-testaceum, nitidum, lreve. Elytra antice sin- 

 gulatim leviter sinuata, prothorace multo Iatiora et %\ 

 longiora, humeris antrorsum prominulis, acutis; pone 



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