Cassida. 339 



longiora, antice utrinque lcviter sinuata, liumcris vix pro- 

 minulis, ohtusisj lateribus sub-recta, infra medium per- 

 parum ampliala, apice conjunclim late rotundata, supra 

 modice convexa, testacea, nitida, parce brunneo-variegata, 

 hinc inde suh-slriata, sat proCunde, remote, inoequaliter, 

 suh-seriatim punctata; margine undique sequahter, modice 

 explanato, crehre ruguloso, limho reflexo. Corpussuhtus 

 nigrum, nitidum, obsolete, remote punctulatum, transver- 

 sim striolatum; ahdomine extrorsum testaceo-maririnato. 

 Pedes testacei, nitidi, ohsolete punctulati, coxis trochan- 

 teribusque nigris. 



b. Prothorax immaculatus. 



9. illota: oblongo-ovata, modice convexa, suh-nitida, li- 

 vida j antennis extrorsum leviter infuscatis^ prosterno 

 pectoreque medio nigris; prothorace subtilissime, suh- 

 remote puuctulato, elytris parce fusco-variegatis, pro- 

 funde, crebre punctato-striatis, interstitiis convexis^ mar- 

 gine modice sequaliter explanato, hmbo reflexo. — 

 Long. 81—9, lat. 5^ — 6 millim. 



Var. a. elytris haud fusco-variegatis, prosterno pectorc- 

 que interdum medio immaculatis. 



Patria: Caput Bonoe Spei. Dom. Drege. CafFraria. Dom, 

 J. A. Wahlberg. Mus. Keg. Holm. 



Magnitudo et statura omnino Cassidce hybrida^, an- 

 tennis extrorsum parum infuscatis, elytris profunde, cre- 

 bi-e punctato-striatis, abdomine toto livido, ab illa mox 

 distincta. Caput sordide lestaceum, nitidum, suhtiliter, 

 crebre punctulatum; oculis oblongis, modice convexis, 

 nigris. Antennoe dilute testacece, apicem versus parutn 

 vel leviter infuscatoe. Prothorax amplus, antice semicii- 

 cularis, postice utrinque leviter sinuatus, extrorsum pa- 

 rum ohliquus, loho medio sat lato, modice producto, 

 apice truncato, angulis suh-rectis, retrorsum haud pro- 

 minulis; supra modice convexus, lividus, nitidus, subtilis- 

 sime, sub-remote punctulatus; margine sat late explanato, 

 limbo modice reflexo. Scutellum lividum, nitidum, pun- 



