568 Hattica. 



Ent. Eeft. 2. jo. 12. SchSjih. fynon. 2.301. i$> 

 Chryjomela Napi. -Fabr. Eleut. 1. 446. 148. 



Chryjomela Hyofcyami. Payk. fn. 2. icj t 2$. 



var. b. 



MwdtUa ovata ccerulea. Linn. Fn. ed. r.ma 

 N:o 540. 



Hathat m plantis olensceis paflim, minus 

 frequehs, 



Defcr. Praecedenre fere duplo miror, pofterius 

 m't)iis att^nuata, fupra tota nigro-coeruiea. Caput 

 fub triangUiare, convexum, coeruieo-vlrefeens, parce 

 & obfolete pun&uiatum, fronte vix carioata, reglo- 

 j\c oris picea; oeuli prominuii, brunnei. Antennae 

 dimidio corpore longiores a bafi uitra mediuna te> 

 ftac^ae, exrrorfum gradatim craffiores fufcse. Tho- 

 rax brevis, transverfus, antice paulio anguftior, pa. 

 rum emarginatus, argulis deflexis, Jateribua ro:un- 

 daius, late rnarginatus, bafi bi-finuatus, fupra vaide 

 convexus , nigro-coeruleus, nitidus, parum virefeer.ti- 

 micans . fubtilifiime, obfoiete punciuiatus, Scutel- 

 }um triangular*, mgro- cceruiefcens?, iseve. E'ytra 

 antice vix thoracis bafi latiora, ied pone bafin dila- 

 fata, dein verfus apicem attenuata, minus tamen 

 quara in H. Hyofcyami; thorace quintuplo longio- 

 ra, fupra vaide cotivexa, nigro cceruiea, nitida, re- 

 guiari»-er pun&ato-jftriata , interftitiis Jaevibus- Cor- 

 pus fubtus nigruni, parum coeruiefcenti- vei seneo- 

 jnican^, nitidum, fubtiliter crebre pur.clulatum. Pe- 

 des mediocre>7, paiijde teftecei, Rtr.otibus pofticis 

 xnagnis, nigro- ccerulefcentibus ; tibise pofticae ut in 

 proxime praecedeutibus conftructse. 



37. H, Chryfo cephala: ob*ovata, conve- 

 Xa, poftcrius attenuata, thorace, etytris 



femo- 



