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margins ; it has a deep longitudinal mesial line, scarcely ex- 

 tending to the front or base, and deepest where it joins the 

 curved line in front ; some wrinkles run off transversely from it. 

 Elytra with nine strong smooth shining longitudinal ribs (count- 

 ing the sutural and marginal ones), the spaces between the ribs 

 covered with short longitudinal strigse; black, with a transverse 

 irregular testaceous-yellow spot a little before the middle of each 

 elytron ; the spot varies in size and form ; it has usually a 

 tooth or sometimes two projecting behind, and a larger promi- 

 nence projecting in front. There is also another small spot of 

 the same colour on the shoulder, but this is sometimes absent; 

 and in such cases the spot in the middle is exceedingly reduced 

 in size, so much so, that I should not be surprised to find indi- 

 viduals with the elytra wholly free from spots ; but I have never 

 seen any such. The extreme apex of the elytra has a narrow 

 edging of testaceous colour, which extends forwards a very little 

 way on the ribs. Looking carelessly, it would appear as if it 

 were the ribs which gave the slightly yellow tinge to the extre- 

 mity of the elytra; but the extreme margin of the apex is itself 

 testaceous. The portion of the upper side of the abdomen pro- 

 jecting beyond the elytra is deeply punctate, black, with a tracing 

 of yellow round the margins of the segments. The under side of 

 the head is testaceous yellow ; of the thorax black, more or less 

 encroached upon by testaceous yellow ; usually there is a testa- 

 ceous line along the middle, and another along each side next the 

 edge, but sometimes almost the whole under side of the thorax 

 is yellow. The mesosternum is yellow ; the rest of the breast 

 is black, with the exception of a portion of the sides. The legs, 

 the trochanters, the joints, and parts from which they spring, 

 are yellow; the thighs are all slightly tipped with fuscous, more 

 or less dark. The segments of the abdomen ai-e black, with the 

 exception of the middle of the posterior margin of the first seg- 

 ment, which is yellow when exposed. 



Calleida, Dej. 

 1. C. ruficollis, Fab., Dej. 5. 185. 



Thorace, pectore, ano, antennarum femorumque basi, tibiisque 

 quatuor posticis rufis ; elytris viridibus ; capite, abdomine, 

 antennis pedibusque nigricantibus. 



Long. 4J^ lin., lat. 1| lin. 



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