1 1 P L 1 l) N r A . 3 1 



(liiplu hrevior, Jipice proriiiuU; em.uginatiis, laterilnis 

 sensini, versiis l^asin c'i(ins rotiindatMS, antice snbtilitcr 

 serratus, postice in nictlio sub-Irnncatiis, utrinqiie den- 

 liculo lalcraliter producfo instruclus, extrorsuni obli([uus, 

 angidis posticis sub-obtusis; supra in dorso nonnihil con- 

 vexus, ibique a basi ultra nicdiuni confertim, medio- 

 criter punctatus, tenuiler canaliculatus, anterius trans- 

 versiiii, subtiliter aciculatns, margine late explanatus, 

 remotius el profundius ])unctatus, niger, sub-nitidus, 

 antice utrinque macula sat magna , oblongo-triangulari , 

 transversa, dilute flavo-hyalina. Scutellum mediocre, tri- 

 angulare, loeve, nigrum, sub-nitidiim, apice obtusum. 

 Elytra prothorace plus quam triplo longiora et basi ejus 

 nonnihil latiora , anlice singulatim leviter sinuata, hu- 

 meris antrorsum paruni pi-ominulis, sub-angulatisj mox 

 pone basin nonnihil rotundato-anipliata, a medio apicem 

 versus sensim perparum angustata, apice conjunclim late 

 rotundata, supra modice convexa, crebre, mediocriter 

 punctato-striata , singulo carinulis duabus dorsalibus, flexis 

 et propc suturam tubcrculis quatuor, primo et ultinio 

 minoribus, 2 — 3 spiniformibus, 4:o maximo, instructo; 

 nigra sub-nitida, macula parva in angulo humerali, al- 

 tera in mcdio marginis, magiia, sub-quadrata , cxtrorsum 

 latiore, margineque apicali sat late, dilute (lavo-hyalinis. 

 Corpus subtus subtiliter punctulatum , pallide flavum, sub- 

 nitidum, Pedes flavij ungviiculis valde inflexis, ferrugineis. 



14. erythrocata : (Dej.) sub-quadrata, modice convexa, 

 supra nigra , sub-opaca, subtus rufo-testacea ; antennis 

 flavis; prothoi-ace dorso obsolete, lateribus piofundius 

 punctato; elytris mediocriter punctato-striatis; singulo 

 antice tuberculis quatuor, parvis, carinaque postica 

 transversa, viridibus, pone medium tubcrculo* valido, 

 nigro. — Long. Sj lat. 3| millim, 



Var. a. prothorace antice utrinque tennitcr flavo- 

 marginato. 



Palria: Madagascar. Mus. Dom. Com, Mannerheim et 

 Mus. Dom. Reiciie. 



