Ckryfcmetn» 477 



Sect r Elytrss regularitcr puncta- 



to-ftrlafis» 



23, C geminata: ovara, fupra violacca, tho- 



racis difco lubtsiifFime purdlulato, ciy- 



trorum ftrils per paria fub-approximatif, 



pundis itrisium crebrit , coai<Sbii$. 



PeiyL fn. 2, (fj". fj). Schoiih. fvnen, 2, 244. 4J» 

 Chrufom qiiinquejttgif* Marfh» Ent* Br, u 



Habitat In plantis paffim , praefertim m Hy- 

 peiicif, 



beicr. Chf« variante paullo waior magisqHe o- 

 vata , alias varietati ejus e, colore iimillima. Caput 

 breve, rotundatum, violaceo- purpurafcens, fubtilif- 

 £me, parce purftulatum, fupra os rotund»tim de- 

 preiTiim, oculis magnis, oblongis, nigto brunneis. 

 Antenr38 thorace longiores, nigrae, extroTfutM parum 

 crafiiores. Tborax transverlus, atjt''ce aiiguftior, la. 

 te & fat profunde femi- circulariter emarginalus , la- 

 teribus fub- rotundatus, sDgufte marginatus, cvideo- 

 ter incraffatue, poftice finuatus, argulis fub.feftis; 

 f»pra modice convexus, violaceo- purpur?fccDf , ni- 

 tidus, in dilco omnium {ubtilifllme, obfolete pun- 

 ftulatus, intra margines fub- impreffuf , evidentius 

 punft^tus, ^mprelTione ad bafin foveam brevem, pro- 

 furdem iormante. Scutelmm obtufe triangnlarc, 

 cceruieo- violaceum, l3cviffimum. Elytra thorace 

 pa'um latiora, fed quintuplo longiora, fiipra valde 

 convexa, vioiaceo.purpurafcentia, nitida; in fipgu- 

 lo fcries novem e pundtis majoribus, quarum ofto 

 exteriores per paria paullo magis approxima'ae, pun- 

 ftis in quavis ferie ultra ca; interftitia fcriarumetiam 

 fubtiiiffime , tagt pun^ulata^ Corpus fubtui obfcu- 



tia« 



