Co i' t<h: y c l a. 507 



nitidus, laevis, basi retieulo nigro, antice medio triangu- 

 lariter producto, utrinque sinuato-emarginato, inrequali- 

 ter septcm flavo-maculato, maculis duabus parvis in ipsa 

 basij transversis, binis in dorso, oblongis, obliquis, antice 

 ramulum angustum extrorsum flexum emittentibus, non pro- 

 cul ab apice tribus, media ovata, exterioribus sub-rotun- 

 dis; margine late explanato, hyalino, confcrtim reticulato. 

 Scutellum flavum, nitidum, la3ve. Elytra prothorace di- 

 midio latiora et duplo longiora, antice utrinque leviter 

 sinuata, humeris antrorsum modice prominulis, sub-angu- 

 latis; pone basin nonnihil ampliata, infra medium sensim, 

 apice conjunctim late rotundata, supra modice convexa, 

 ad scutellum leviter impressa, valde remote, sat profunde, 

 irregulariter punctata, confertim flavo-rugosa, rugulis la3- 

 vibus; quam in Copt. plecta crebrius, irregulariter impres- 

 so-nigroreticulata; margine late explanato, parum oblique 

 deflexo, hyalino, confertim reticulato. Corpus subtus fla- 

 vum, nitidum, subtiliter, crebre punctulatum. Pedes flavi, 

 nitidi, obsolete punctulati. 



397. reticidata: sub-rotundata, moclice convexa, flava, ni- 

 tida; antennis articulis 9 — 10 nigro-fuscis ; prothorace 

 basi plaga sat magna, antice utrinque leviter emargi- 

 nata, maculas septem flavas includente; scutello nigro- 

 marginato; elytris sat profunde, sub-remote punctato- 

 striatis, basi leviter retusis, dorso nigris, maculis fla- 

 vis, elevatis, ad suturam crebrioribus notato; margine 

 late explanato; humeris antrorsum modice prominulis, 

 sub-obtusis. — Long. 5f, lat. 5 millim. 



Cassida reticulata Fabr. Syst. El. I, p. 395, 38. — Sciioi:nh. 

 Syn. Ins. II, p. 218, 52. 



Patria: America meridionalis Dom. Smidt. E Mus. Dom. 

 T. Lund descripta. 



Copt. hebrcea? afflnis, signaturis plagas postica? protho- 

 racis aliter formatis, antennarum articulis 9 et \ nigro- 

 fuscis, elytris ad sutram crebre, in disco remote flavo- 

 maculatis. Caput flavum, nitidum, subtiliter, crebre pun- 

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



