CRYPTOCEPHALUS CONFLUENTUS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Rufous; elytra yellow, trilineate with black; 

 the inner line confluent with the suture beyond 

 the middle. 



SYNONYM. 



Cryptocephalus CONFLUENTUS. NoMs. Joum^ 

 Acad. Nat. Sciences^ vol. iii. p. 440. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body yellowish-rufous: head impunctured, 

 yellow ; a rufous spot on the vertex, and another 

 surrounding the base of each antenna: antennse 

 black, pale at base: thorax impunctured; ante- 

 rior and lateral margins yellowish; lateral sub- 

 margin more deeply rufous than the disk : scutel 

 black : elytra pale yellow, with punctured striae ; 

 three longitudinal, nearly parallel black lines on 

 each elytron, the interior line confluent with the 



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