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medio canaliculatum; p.ilpis ferrugineis; ocnlis ovatis, 

 modice convexis, glaucis. Antenna! nigrre, basi nitidx, 

 glabric, extrorsuni pubescentes, aiticnbs Iribus basalibus 

 interduni (errufrineo-varieiratis. Piothorax seniicii cnlans, 

 apice sub-truncatus, exlrorsnni lcnuiter reflexo-niarginatus, 

 laleribus sensiin rolundato-anipliatis; postice utrinque le- 

 viter sinuatus, lobo medio parvo, triangulariter producto, 

 angulis retrorsum nonniiiil prominulis, sub-acuminatis; 

 supra convexiusculus, subtilissiine, sub-remote punctula- 

 tus, sanguineus, opacus, extrorsuni nigro-marginatus, me- 

 dio tenuiter, longitudinaliter canaliculatus, postice ante 

 lobum foveolis duabus, parvis, transversis, approximatis. 

 Scutelluni minutissiinum , obtectum. Elvtra prothorace 

 duplo latiora et triplo longiora, anticc siiigulaliin baud 

 sinuata, introrsum subtiliter crcnulata, bumeris antrorsuin 

 haud prominulis, late rotundatis^ pone basin subito ro- 

 tundato-ampliata, infra inedium citius rotundato-angustata, 

 supra modice convexa, dorso subtiliter, sub-remote, late- 

 ribus adhuc subtilius, nonnihil crebrius punctulata, di- 

 lute sanguinea, basi intus anguste, margine reliquo latius, 

 sutura versus apicem nonnihil angustius, vitta longitudi- 

 nali in disco exteriore et alia transversa, mox ante me- 

 dium, latiore, nigro-coerulescentibus. Corpus subtus sub- 

 tiliter punctulatum et transversim striolatumj prothorace 

 pectoreque nigro-piceis; abdomine rufo-testaceo, segmentis 

 basalibus transversim infuscatis. Pedes nigro-picei, nitidi, 

 obsolete punctulati. 



2. trifasciata: rotundafa, modice convexa, dilute sangui- 

 nea, supra parum, subtus magis nitida^ antennis nigris; 

 prothorace semicirculari, obsoletissime punctulato; ely- 

 tris subtiliter, sat crebre, extrorsum adluic subtilius 

 punctulatis, sutura anguste, margine exteiiore minus 

 late, singulo vitta poslica intraniarginali, fasciisque tribus 

 lateralibus, transversis, nigio-c:cruleis. — Long. 14, laf. 

 14 millim. 



Cassida trifasciata Fabr, Syst. F.l. I, p. 404, 97. — Ent. Syst. 

 1, p. 304, 55. — Mant. Ins. p. 65, 46. (sec. Mus. Fabr.) — 

 Herbst Naturs. VIII, p. 290, 59. — Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 



