448 S u p r e ft i /♦ 



elevato-coftatis, margine maeulisque du^- 

 bus difci rubro-aureis impreflis. 



Linn. fijfl. nat. z. 660. 7. Fn. fv. £#. Fabf. 

 fyji, elent. 2. 19$. 69. Herbft. col. p. 146. 

 $2. Tab. i±S. f. 10. De Geer Inf 4. i?p. 3, 

 Payk. fn. 2. 221. 8. Pam. fn. 6$. /. 1*. 



Habitat in fylvaticis, prsefertim Quercetis> 

 rarius. 



Defcr. B.8-guttata paullo latior, fed nofctongior. 

 Caput valde retraclum, rubro - vel viridi - aureum, 

 creberrime rugofo-punc~lu!aturn, fronte retufa tri- 

 angulari, fupra os biloba, emarginata; oCUli valde 

 elongati, in vertice approximati. Antennae thorace 

 breviores virefcentes, articulo primo magno arcuato 

 olavato, fecundo brevi, tertio iterum elongato, ob- 

 oonicis; fequentes coar&ati, extefiores fenfim angu- 

 ftiores, obtufe ferrati. Thorax obfcure purpurafcenti- 

 aeneus , breviffimus, transverfus, antice paullo Jatior, 

 truncatus, lateribus fere reclis , nonnihil obliquis, in- 

 ferne marginatis; poftice trilobus, angUlis fub-acu- 

 minatis; fupra parumconvexus, obfolete canalicula- 

 tus, foveolis pluribus impreffus, inaequaiis, creberri- 

 me punclatuscc rugis transverfis exaratus. Scutellum 

 minutum triangulare acutiflimum, virefcerts, Elytra 

 thorace multo latiora, bumeris obliquis rotUndatis , 

 pone medium dilatata , apicem verfus attenuata , mar- 

 gine tenUe ferrato, apice rotundata, fupra parUm con- 

 vexa , fufco-aenea , margine lnterali pUrpurafcentiau- 

 reo nitido; praeter futuram, in fmgulo elytro coftae 

 quatuor elevatae, fere carinatae, nigrae* politae, qua- 

 rum futurae proxima integra , in iplo apice cUm ex- 

 tima connexa; intermediae irregulares; abbreviatae, 

 tnterruptae; interftitia fubtiliftime creberrime punctu- 

 lata, rugisque trartsveriis elevatioribus , cum coftis 

 connexis, fub-f eticulata ; in fingulo elytro foveae tres 



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