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Habi&t in Svccia auflrali rarius. Dom./di 



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Defcr, JVTagnitudo & fere ftatura EI. caftanei, 

 paullo tamen anguftior, &: magis convexns. Caput 

 irigrum obfeurum , crebfe pun6tatum. fronte late im- 

 preffa , anti-ce rotundata, margine reflexo, Antennse 

 totsenignfe, dimidio corpore longiores, compreflse, 

 ferratse, articulo fecundo parvo nodofo. Thorax 

 iatitudiuem; dii vixlongior, antice late, fed non pro- 

 funde emarg'*natus, lateribus rotundatus, medio di- 

 latatus, mar^inatus - , angulis pofticis iterum promi» 

 ^sffs, carinatis, obtufis ; fupra modice convexus, 

 crebre at tenue punclulatus, pubefcens, totus niger 

 nitidus. flcutellum ovatum nigrum pubefcens. Ely- 

 tra tota pallide tdtucea , pube longiori grifea adfper- 

 fa, thorace parum lattora, fed triplo longiora, apice 

 obtuie rotundata, fupra modice convexa, regularitec 

 punctato - ftriata , interftitiis fubfiiiffirae obfoletins pun- 

 ctulatis. Corpus totum nigrum fub- nitidum, tenue 

 pubefeens. Pedes nigri tarfts obfcure teftaceis. 



Var. b, iii omnibus fimiiiima, modo tboracis 

 rcargo anticus , anguli poftici , & interdum etjam mar- 

 go lateralis rufo- teftacei; huic varietati convenit de- 

 fcriptio EL iiventis Cl. Linnoei, aptius quam ullia- 

 iise ex mihi cognitis indigenis. 



Obf. El. teftaceus, Fabr. Syft, Elevt. 2. ^38. 

 g6. cui pedes teftacei adfcripti, certe alius, & ut o- 

 pinor, varietas El. lateraiis ejusdem aucloris, ely- 

 trLs pallide teftaceisimmaculatis; nomen Herbftii ideo 

 fpeciei noftro tribuendum, 



Sect. 2* Fronte sequali, fuh-convexa, 



43. E. ferrugineus: oblongus niger, tho- 

 race fupra, elytrisque ferrugineis, his ob- 

 folete itriatis, antennis acute ferratis, 



Linn« 



