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culis 2 — 4 subtus flavis. Piotliorax longitujine diiniJio 

 I.itior, seniicircularis, antice late, posterius magis rotun- 

 datus, basi utrinque leviter sinuatus, extrorsum liaud ob- 

 liquns, lobo medio parum producto, apice cum angulis ro- 

 tundatoj supra modice convexus, loevis, flavus, nitidusj 

 margine postico tenuiter vittisque tiibus dorsi nigris, 

 media recta, reliquis nonnihil longiore, apice acuminata, 

 lateralibus intiorsum nonnihil oblique ductis, apicem versus 

 angustatis, apice obtusis, ad basin continuatisj marginibiis 

 modice cxplanatis, limbo reflexo. Scutellum atrum, nitidum, 

 heve. Elytra protliorace nonniliil latiora et illo 2^ longiora, 

 antice utrinque leviter siiiuata, humeris antrorsum haud 

 prominulis, rotundatis^ pone basin non ampliata, infra 

 niedium sensim anguslata, apice conjunctim rotundata, su- 

 pra coiivexa, subtiliter, vage, sub-remote punctulata, atra, 

 nitida, dorso vitta lata, longitudinali margineque loto, poste- 

 rius angustius, flavis, hoc inodice deflexo-explanato, limbo 

 tenuiter reflexo. Corpus subtus atrum, nitidum, subtiliter 

 punctulatum et transversim slriolatum^ abdomine extror- 

 sum aut tenuiter flavo-marginat^) aut serie laterali e ma- 

 culis triangularibus, flavis notato. Pedes nigri, nitidi, parce, 

 paruni profunde punctati. 



17. fuscald: ovata, convexa, sub-nitida, subtus nigra,' an- 

 tennis basi rufo-ferrugineis; prothorace subtiliter, sat 

 crebre puiiclulato, flavo-testaceo, postice tenuiler cana- 

 liculato, rnedio plaga magna, sublriangulari, caslaneaj 

 clylris crebre, mediocriter puiictatis, flavo-lestaceis, siii- 

 gulo vitlis duabiis castaiieis, antice posticeque connexis, 

 interiore latiore; maigine niodice explanato, deflexo. — 

 Long. 9 — lOi, lat. 6 — 6f millim. 



Physonota fuscata Dej. Cat, ed. 3, p. 374. 

 Cassida fuscata Kllg Preisverz. p. 8, 96. 



Yar. a. vittis elvtrorum castaneis nonnihil anjrustioribus, 

 antice posticeque non conjunctis. 



Physonota quadrilineata Dej. Cat. ed. 3, p. 374. 



Var. b. prothorace plaga dorsali fere divisa, antice po- 

 sticeque flavedine profunde emarginata. i/",,^. 



