ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



THYMALUS. Latreille. 

 Family NITIDULIDJE. Mac Leay. 



Generic Character. Antenna short, the basal 

 joint elongate, clavate, third and fourth joints equal, 

 gradually thickened to the extremity, the three last 

 joints forming an elongate, compressed, perfoliate 

 club, with the terminal joint orbicular : palpi sub- 

 clavate, the last joint subovate : head small, con- 

 cealed by the anterior margin of the thorax, which 

 is slightly notched, the posterior truncate, and the 

 sides broadly margined and depressed : elytra con- 

 vex, large, entire, nearly oval, hairy, the sides with 

 a broad margin, covering the abdomen : body con- 

 vex subhetnispheric : legs short simple : tarsi with 

 five simple joints. 



Sp. 1. Thy. limbatus. Brassy brown and hairy 

 the margin bright red: elytra punctured and striated. 



Cassida limbata. Fabricius. Thymalus limbatus. 

 Curtis. Stephens. 



Length from 2£ to 3 lines. 



Brassy-brown, hairy : head ferruginous, punc- 

 tured : eyes black : thorax rufo-ferruginous, thickly 

 and finely punctured, with the disc somewhat convex 

 behind, and glossed with aeneous : elytra broader 

 than the thorax, very convex, deeply, coarsely, and 

 somewhat irregularly punctatc-striate, the margin 

 obscure sanguinous or rufo-ferruginous : the legs, 

 antennae and body ferruginous, the latter punctured. 

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