C n E L y M n p II A. 9 



Patiia: Pernanibuco. A Dom. Dohrn ad desctiljenduin 

 coinmunicata. 



Ch. divosoi ? statura similis, nonnihil rninor. Caput 

 nigro-a-neuni, sub-opacum, punctulatum, medio longitu- 

 dinaliter canaliculatum ; oculis ovatis, modice convexis, 

 nigris. Antennte nigroe, basi nitida', extrorsum pube- 

 scentes. Protliorax latitudine postica duplo brevior, ni- 

 gro-aMicus, opacus, antice rotuiidato-emarginatus, lateribus 

 tenuitcr reflcxo-marginatis, iiltra njcdium rotundato-am- 

 pliatis, dein basin versus sub-rectis; postice utrinque le- 

 viter bi-sinuatus, lobo medio retrorsum triangulariter 

 produclo, apice obtuso, angulis lateralibus modice pro- 

 minulis, acuminatis; supra modice convexus, subtiliter, 

 remote punctulatus. Scutcllum nigro-Geneum , nitidum. 

 Elylra ovata, prothoiace nomiihil latiora et illo triplo 

 longioia, antice conjiinctim leviter tii-sinuata, pone basin 

 citius oblique ampliala, a medio apicem versus sensim 

 angustata, apice conjunctim late rotundata, supra nigro- 

 a;nca, opaca, mediocriter minus crebre punctala, coiivexa, 

 pra^sertim in dorso antico, ibique valide, sed obtuse gib- 

 l)osa, gibbo nitidoj singulo elytro disco tato rugulis plus 

 minusve crebris, flavo-testaceis, reticulum fcre formantibus 

 variegato,- margine sub-deflexo, ante medium prsesertim 

 sat late exphmalo, subtiliter, remote punctulato. Cor- 

 pus subtus nigro-aneum, nilidum, subtiliter punctulatuni 

 et trnnsversim slriolatum. Pedes nigri, nitidi, obsolete 

 punctulali. 



7. gibha: rotundata (o^) aut ovata (^), sanguinea, sub- 

 nitida; anlennis extrorsum nigris; prolhoiace remote 

 punctulato, tcnuiter nigro-marginato, in medio dorsi 

 nigro bi-maculalo; elytris obtuse gibbosis, sub-remote, 

 fortiter punctatis, late rufo-reticulatis, reticulo modice 

 elevato, maculas numerosas, iiucquales, nigras inclu- 

 dente; margine in medio ampliato. — Long. c/" 8 — 9, 

 lat. 6| — 7^ Long. ? 11|, lat. 8 millim. 



Cassida gibba Fabr. Syst. El. I, p. 395, 43. — Ent. Syst. Suppl. 

 p. 82, 21—22."— Hkrbst Naturs. VIII, p. 352, 124. — 

 ScHOENH. Syn. Ins. II, p. 218, 62. 



