450 Oyclica. 
3 ®r. gloriosa: Subelongata, postice paullo dilatata, plerumque 
minus convexa, viridi-aenea vel aurea, subtiliter alutacea, nitidula, 
meso- et metasterno latera versus, prothoracis disco interdum, vitta 
media elytrorum limboque suturali angustissimo violaceis; antennis sat 
validis, basi rufescentibus, artieulis 6 ultimis crassioribus; prothorace 
transverso, sal convexo, subtiliter punctato, apice quam basi anqgustiore, 
lateribus leviter rotundatis, callo laterali angusto, impressione lata, 
fortiter rugoso-punctala, postice profundiore, in medio vix interrupta 
terminato; elytris minus fortiter subruguloso-punctatis, interstitüs parce 
punctulatis. — Long. 9—13 mm. 
Mas: elytris plerumque seriebus 4 sat irreqularibus punctorum per paria 
approximatis, segmento ultimo ventrali in medio longitudinaliter foveo- 
lato-impresso, apice truncato utrinque sat profunde sinuato. 
Femina: elytris extrorsum evidenter ruqulosis, segmento ultimo ventrali 
ante apicem rotundato-productum linea media obsolete impresso. 
Fabr. Spec. Insect. II. App. 497; Ent. Syst. I. 1. 324. — Panz. 
Faun. Germ. 23. 14. — Oliv. Ent. V. 545. t. 7. 103. — 
Duftschm. Faun. Austr. III. 168 (pars.). — Suffr. Mon. 165. 
Kraatz Berl. Zeit. 1859. 280; Monatsbl. 1850. 35. — Redtb. 
Faun. A. II. 477. — Weise Monatsbl. 1850. 99; Deutsch. 
Zeit. 1883. 244. 
Chr. phalerata Redtb.]. c. ed. 1. 549. 
Chr. pretiosa Redtb.l. e. I. 474. 
Chr. speciosa Baly Trans. ent. Soc. 1879. 175. t. 2. £.1. — Krasatz 
Monatsbl. 1880. 36. 
Var. a. virgo: Eadem, tota aeneo-viridis, haud vel evidenter coeruleo 
micans, aut elytris umbra longitudinali saturatius coerulescente. 
Var. b. nubila: Saturate coerulea aut cyanea, interdum elytris nigri- 
cantibus, his rarissime vitta obscuriora distincta. 
Var. ec. pretiosa: Latior, plerumque fortiter convexa, postice magis 
ampliata, coeruleo -viridis aut viridi-aenea plus minusve aurichalceo- 
vel aureo-splendens, lateribus pectoris, disco prolhoracis (interdum), 
sutura vittaque media elytrorum nigro-violaceis, cyaneis aut coerules- 
centibus, hac aut distincte terminata aut lituraeformi; impressione 
laterali prothoracis interdum minus profunda, interstitüs elytrorum 
saepe subtilius sed evidenter punctatis. 
Suffr. Mon. 167. 
Chr. speciosa Suffr. Mon. 172 (pars.). — Redtb. 1. c. H. 474. 
Var. d. superba: Elytris rubro-cupreis, sutura vittaque media (rarius 
etiam limbo angusto laterali) viridi- inauratis. 
Oliv. Ent. V. 544. t. 7. £. 102. 
Var. e. venusta: Chalybaea, cyanea, violacea aut violaceo-nigra, rarius 
elytris vilta media obscura. 
Suffr. Mon. 175 (pars.). — Kraatz l. ce. 1859. 279. — Baly 
l. c. 1879. 176 (Var.). 
