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tidiE, glabrx, extrorsuin obsourioies, puhescentes. Pio- 

 tliorax Intiludine postica fere duplo brevior, apice late, 

 sat prorundc rotundalo-emarginatus, angulis anficis ob- 

 tusisj extrorsuin tenuiter reflexo-marginatus, lateribus ul- 

 tra medium sensim rotundato-ampliatis , dein sub-rectis; 

 postice ulrinque sub-triincatus, lobo medio niodice pro- 

 minulo, apice rotundato, angulis retrorsum non pro- 

 minulis, sub-rectis; siipra paullo convexus, subtiliter, 

 sat crebre punctulatus, dorso postico longitudinaliter le- 

 viter iinpressus, ibique tenuiter canaliculatusj cupreus, 

 paruin nitidus, antice utrinque anguste testaceo-margi- 

 natus, Scutellum mediocre, triangulare, vix piinctatum, 

 cupreum, nilidum. Elytra prothorace fere qiiadruplo 

 longiora et basi ejiis paiillo latiora, antice ulrinque sub- 

 truncata, humeris rotundalis; mox pone basin subito ro- 

 tundalo-ampIiiUa , a medio angustata, apice ij)so conjun- 

 ctim rotundata, supra moflice convexa, basi leviter re- 

 tusa, dorso anlico gibbo obsoleto instructa, pone hume- 

 ros late, minus profuntle impressa, anlice confertim, pro- 

 funde, poslice subtiliter rugoso-punctata , cuprea, paruni 

 nitidaj margine subtus viridi-cyaneo. Corpus subtus ob- 

 solete, transveisim striolalum, nigrum, nitidum; ahdo- 

 mine utrinque serie e maculis ferrugineis. Pedes re- 

 mote punctulati, viridi-cyanei , nitidi. 



Variat supra dilute viridis vel caerulescenti-nigra. 

 Mas dimidio fere minor, magis rotundalus, elytris pone 

 basin oblique amplialis. 



46. textilis: (Dej.) sub-lriangularis, convexa, nigra, pa- 

 rum nitida, cinereo-pubescens; prothorace subtilissime, 

 sub-iemole punctuhito, apice leviter emarginalo, late- 

 rihus ullra medium oblique amplialo, dein sub-recto; 

 elytris latiorihus, mediocriler, sub-remote piinctatis, 

 undique v;ilde ii regulariter, crasse, dilule sanguineo 

 elevalo-reliculatis, hasi retusis, dorso anlico obtuse 

 gibbosis, apicem versus attenuatis, conjunclim sub-acu- 

 minatis, liuineris antrorsiuu modice prominulis, rolun- 

 dalis. — Long. 15 — 16, lal. 13—14^ niillim. 



