302 AsiMDOMORPlIA, 



56. diaphana: rotiindata, modice convexa, dilnte testacea, 

 sub-nitida; antennis articnlis dnobns nltimis, prosterno, 

 pectoreqne medio nigris; protliorace laevi, antice latc, 

 posterins magis rotnndato, basi angnste fusco-marginato; 

 elytris remote, subtiliter, circa scutcllnin et postice ob- 

 solete seriatini pnnctatis, aiitice leviter gibbosis; hu- 

 meris antrorsum modice prominulis, apice parum ro- 

 tundatis; margine late explanato, confertim reticulato, 

 intus macula magna oblonga, albido-pellucida. — Long. 

 10, lat. 91 millim. 



Cassida diaphana Sahlb. Spec. Ins. p. 58, 39. 

 Deloyala diaphana Dej. Cat. ed. 3, p. 3 71. 



Patria: Sierra Leona. Dom. Afzelius. Mus. Reg. Holm. 

 A Dom. Com. Mannerheim ad conferendum missa. 

 Guinea. Mus. Dom, Germar, 



A. silacece proxima, major, proesertim lalior, magis 

 rotundata, eljtris subtilius, reinotius striato-punctatis, pone 

 scutellnni evidentius gibbosis. Caput dilute (lavo-testa- 

 ceum, sub-nitidum, obsolete punctnlatum; ore piceo; 

 oculis ovatis, modice convexis, nigris. Antennx' flavo-te- 

 staceoe, articulis duobus ultimis nigris. Protlioiax latitu- 

 dine dimidio brevior, antice late, posterius magis rotun- 

 datus, basi utrinque leviter sinuatus, extrorsum sub-obli- 

 quus, lobo medio lato, retrorsum parum producto, apice 

 truncato, angulis rotundatisj supra disco convexus, flavo- 

 testaceus, nitidus, lanis; marginibus, praesertim postice, 

 late explanatis, dilutioribus, pellucidis, versus lucem in- 

 spectis confertim reticulatis Scutellum flavo-testaceum, 

 nitidum, la^ve. Elytra prothorace mullo latiora et plus 

 duplo longiora, antice utrinque sinuata, humeris antror- 

 sum modice prominulis, apice rotundatis; pone basin mo- 

 dice rotundato-ampliata, dein lateribus et apice circula- 

 riter rotundata, supra flavo-testacea, nitida, disco convexa, 

 pone scntellum in gibbum breveni elevata, basi loevis- 

 sima, pone gibbum et humeros punetis serie dispo- 

 sitis, ad suturam obsoletissime exterius paullo profundius 

 impressa; margine late explanato, pellucido, kevissimo, 

 ad lucem inspccto reticulato, introrsum albido-fenestrato, 



