242 ASPIDOMORPHA. 



ceiim, nllicluin, obsolete pnnctiilatum; ore nigro-pieeo; 

 palpis flavo-testaceis; oculis ovatis, modice convexis, brun- 

 neis. Antennae flavo-testacex, articulis 8 — 11 nigro-fuscis, 

 ultimo apice tamen testaceo. Prolliorax latitudine vix 

 dimidio bievior, antice late rotundatus, semicircularis, 

 postice utrinque leviter sinuatus, dein extrorsum valde 

 oblique truncatus, lobo medio haud producto, apice ro- 

 tundalo, angulis sub-obtusis; supra flavo-testaceus, niti- 

 dus, laevis, dorso modice convexus, ante lobum obsolete, 

 longitudinaliter canaliculatus; marginibus antice parum, 

 posterius sat late, explanatis, obsolete reticulalis. Scu- 

 tellum parvum, flavo-testacenm , nitidum, Iteve. Elylra 

 prothorace duplo latiora et fere triplo longiora, antice 

 utrinque leviter sinuata, humeris antrorsum modice pro- 

 minulis, apice leviter rotunciatis; pone basin cilius rotun- 

 dalo-ampliata, lateribus apiceque circulariter rotundata, 

 flavo-testacea, sub-nitida, dorso inodice convexa, punctis 

 mediocribus, remotis, inaequaliter sub-seriatim impressa; 

 margine, praesertim antice, latissime explanato, nonnihil 

 deflexo, la3vi, obsolelius reticulato, venis sat crebris, te- 

 nuibns, transversis, obliquis, fuscis scepe notato. Corpus 

 subtus subtiliter, transversim striolatum, piosterno pe- 

 ctoreque nigro-piceis, hoc utrinque testaceo-marginato; 

 abdomine nigro-piceo, marginibus late segmentorumque 

 ultimorum apicibus flavo-testaceis. Pedes flavo-testacei, 

 nitidi; femoribus omnibus antice, primi paris etiam postice 

 macula rotunda, nigro-fusca; tibiis anticis exlus, a inedio 

 ad apicem, linea angusta, nigro-fusca. 



XXX. ASPIDOMORPHA. 



HoPE Coleopt. Man. III, p. 158. 

 Cassida Linn. Syst. Nat. I, II, p. 574. — Fabr. Syst. El. I, p. 

 387. — De Geer Ins. V, p. 178. — Herbst Naturs. VIII, 

 p. 204. — Oliv, Ent. VI, p. 922. — Schoend. Syn. Ins. 

 II, p. 209. — Dej. Cat. ed. 3, p. 374. — Deloyala Cbe- 

 VROLAT Dej. Cat. ed. 3, p. 371. 



AntennSB breviusculae, basi tenues, apicem versus 

 •modice incrassatae, articulis l:o oblongo, basi tenuiori, 

 2:o brevi, 3:o cetcris longiori, cylindrico, 4:o et 5:o non- 



