Goptocyci. A. 497 



Cassida Mnrio Fabh. Sy.st. El. I, p. 393, 29. — Schoenh. Syn. 



Ins. II, p. 217, 37. 

 Coptqcycla Morio Df.j. Cat. ed. 3, p. 373. 

 Patria: America meridionalis Dom. Schoenherr Mus. 

 Reg. Ilolm. A Dom. Com. Mannerheim ad confe- 

 rendum missa. 



Magnitudo fere Copt. fallacis, aliter colorata. Caput 

 ferrugineum, nitidum, subtiliter, crebre punctulatum; ocu- 

 lis oblongis, modice convexis, nigris. Antennas sat longae, 

 tenues, ferruginese, extrorsum obscuriores, articulo tertio 

 secundo tenuiore, vix longiore. Prothorax latitudine non- 

 nihil brevior, antice rotundatus, postice utrinque leviter 

 sinuatus, dein extrorsum subito obliquus, lobo medio lato, 

 parum producto, apice truncato, utrinque impresso, an- 

 gulis lcviter rotundatis; supra convexiusculus, piceus, 

 sub-hevis, nitidus; margine sat late explanato, ferrugineo, 

 parum hyalino, obsolete reticulato. Scutellum piceum, 

 nitidum, lajve. Elytra prothorace dimidio latiora et duplo 

 longiora, antice utrinque leviter sinuata, huineris antror- 

 sum modice prominulis, apice parum rotundatis; pone 

 basin nonnihil ampliata, infra medium sensim, apice con- 

 junctim late rotundata, supra convexa, ad scutellum le- 

 viter impressa, dein obsolete gibbosa, sat profunde, re- 

 mote, ina^qualiter, seriatim punctata, picea, nitida, singulo 

 in disco ante medium foveola parva impresso; margine 

 sat late explanato, oblique deflexo, ferrugineo, parum 

 hyalino, obsolete reticulato. Corpus subtus ferrugineum, 

 nitidum, subtiliter, crebre punctulatum. Pedes ferruginei, 

 nitidi, punctulati. 



388. Carnifex: sub-ovalis, modice convexa, nitida, flava; 

 antennis articulo ultimo apice nigro; prothorace laavi, 

 plaga magna basali scutelloque sanguineis; elytris ob- 

 scure sanguineis, sat profunde, sub-remote, minus re- 

 gulariter punctato-striatis, ad scutellum utrinque im- 

 pressis, dein obsolete gibbosis, singulo in disco tri-im- 

 presso; margine modice explanato, antice dilute san- 

 guineo, postice pallide flavo. — Long. 5|, lat. i} millim. 



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