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merum, tertia non procul a sutura longe pone mediuni, 

 rotundis, quartaquc propius ad apicem in disco exteriori, 

 tiiangulari; margine late explanato, sub-deflexo, infra 

 hasin late impresso. Corpus subtus subtiliter, sat cre- 

 bre punctulatum, nigrum, nitidum. Pedes remote pun- 

 ctulati, similiter colorati. 



25. conspersa: rotundata (cf^) aut sub-ovata (?), convexa, 

 Cicrulea, opaca, pube tenui, pallida parcissime ad- 

 spersa; prothorace subtilissime, sub-remote punctulato, 

 Jateribus ultra medium oblique ampliato, dein sub- 

 recto; elytris subtiliter, suh-remote punctulatis, fove- 

 olis remotis, inajqualibus, rotundis, atro-holosericeis 

 notatis; basi retusis, dorso antico valide, ohtuse gib- 

 bosis, singulo maculis tribus helvo-pubescentibus; mar- 

 gine late explanato. — Long. (/• 13 — 15, lat. 12 — 14, 

 Long. ? 18, lat. 15 millim. 



Cassida conspersa. Germ. Ins. Spec p. 534, 721. 

 Cyrtonota stigmata. Dej. Cat. ed. 3, p. 368. 



Var. a. supra nigro-cajrulea, opaca, ceterum ut in 

 genuina. 



Patria: Brasiiia Dom. Westermann et Dom. Schoenherr, 

 Mus. Reg. Holm. 



Mas M. imcquali parum major, magis rotundalus; 

 femina dimidio major, sub-ovata. Caput crebre punctu- 

 latuni , cseruleum , parum nitidum, parco pallido-pube- 

 scens, medio canaliculatum ,• oculis ovatis, modice coii- 

 vexis, nigiis. Antennx* basi cicruleae, sub-nitidae, gla- 

 brae, extrorsum nigroe, puhescentes. Prothorax latitu- 

 dine postica lere triplo brevior, apice leviter rotundato- 

 emarginatus vel sub-liuncatus, laterihus longe ultra me- 

 dium ohlique ampliatis, dein sub-rectis, undique tenu- 

 iter rcflexo-marginjitis; postice utiinque vix sinuatus , lobo 

 medio inodice producto, apice rotuuflato, angulis suh- 

 rectis; supra subtilissime, sub-remote punctulatus, cceru- 

 leus, opacus, dorso paullo convexus, tenuiter canalicu- 

 latus, extrorsum explanalus, pube depressa, pallida parce 

 adspersus. Sculellum sub-lriangulare, laivc, cujruleum, 



