430 r'OECILASPlS. 



42. encausta: rotundala, modice convexa, parunj nitlda, 

 rufo-testacea; antennis extrorsunj, pectoreque nigiis; 

 protliorace sub-laevi, postice inrequaliter, extrorsum 

 utrinque latius nigro-marginato; scutello elytrisque ni- 

 gris, his subtiliter remote punctatis, singulo maculis 

 duabus magnis flavo-testaceis, anteriore transversa, me- 

 dio leviter constricta, posleriore sub-triangulari. — Long. 

 10 12, lat. 81 — 10 millim. 



Botanochara encausta. Duj. Cat. ed. 3, p. 369. 



Patria: Crasiha Dom. Com. DejeAn et Dom. Dupont, 

 Mus. Reg. Holm. — A Dom. Chevroi-AT ad confe- 

 rendum communicata. 



Species pulchra, prothorace rufo-testaceo, postice 

 tantum ina.^qualiter nigro-maiginato ut et signaturis ely- 

 trorum , a conspeciebus facile distincta. Caput rufo-te- 

 sfaceum , parum nitidum, punctulatum , medio canalicu- 

 latum^ palpis nigris; oculis ovatis, modice convexis, glau- 

 cis. Antennae rufo-testacea^, basi nitidae, glabrse, arti- 

 culis 5 ultimis nigro-fuscis. Prothorax lalitudine postica 

 duplo brevior, antice late rotundatus, extrorsum tenuiter 

 reflexo-marginatus, lateribus longe pone medium citius 

 rotundatis et versus basin angustatisj postice utrinque le- 

 viter sinuatus, lobo medio retrorsum paullo producto, 

 apice rotundato, anguHs obtusis; rufo-teslaceus, sub-loe- 

 vis, parum nitidus, postice inaequaliter, extrorsum utrin- 

 que latius nigio-marginatus, dorso convexiusculus, me- 

 dio canalicula tenuissima antice posticeque abbreviata. 

 Scutellum triangulare, nigrum, sub-nitidum , laeve. Ely- 

 tra prothorace vix triplo longiora et ejus basi dimidio 

 latiora, antice singulatim leviter sinuata, humeris an- 

 trorsum haud piominulis, leviter rotundatisj medio pa- 

 ullo rotundato-ampliata, dein citius rotundato-angustata , 

 apice conjunctlm late rotundata, supra modice convexa, 

 late explanato-marglnata, nigra, sub-opaca, subtillter, re- 

 mote, hlnc Inde sub-serlatim, marglne crebrlus punctu- 

 lata, slngulo maculis duabus magnls, flavo-testacels in- 

 signito, prlma non procul a basi , transversa, medio non- 

 nihll constricta, quasl e maculls duabus constructa, nec 



