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subtil issime, crebre punctulatum; labro palpisque 

 flavo-testaceis; oculis raagnis, rotundalis, modice 

 convexis. Antennae breyes, Qavo-testaceae, parce 

 pubescenles. Protborax latitudine multo brevior, 

 antice utrinque leviter sinuatus, angulis parum 

 productis, obtusis; lateribus tenuiter marginatis, 

 versus basin sensira rotundato-ampliatis; postice 

 leviter rotuudatus, angulis obtusis; supra modice 

 convexus, subtiliter, crebre punctulatus. Scutellum 

 parvura, triangulare, obsolete punctulatum. Ely- 

 tra prothorace fe re triplo longiora et basi ejus 

 baud. latiora, antice truncata, humeris non eleva- 

 tis; mox pone basin nonnibil ampliata, apice con- 

 junctim late rotundata, supra modice convexa, 

 crebre, evidentius punctulata, singulo inträ me- 

 dium et apicem macula par va, rotunda, rufo-te- 

 stacea. Corpus subtus subtiliter, crebre punctu- 

 latum. Ped.es testacei; femoribus a basi fere ad. 

 apicem nigro-piceis vel interdum fusco-testaceis. 



*Nundina (Dej.) Litura: ovata, convexa, nitida, supra 

 flavo-testacea, crebre punctulata, cinereo-pube- 

 scens; pectore abdomineque nigris; elytris inae- 

 qualiter punctulatis, interdum fusco-variegatis. 

 — Long. 2f, lat. 2 ra il lim. 



Nitidula litura. Fabb. Syst. El. I. 353. 27. 

 Coccinella Aurora. Panz. Faun. Ins. Germ. 36. 5. 

 Rhyzobius litura. Steph. Man. Brit. Ent. 319. 2521. 

 Coccinella litura. Illig. Käf. Pr. 419. 10. 

 Strongylus litura. Schönh. Syn. Ins. II. 208. 3. 



In gramine, praesertim ad litora maris, mense 

 Julii, passim. Ad Hoburgen frequenter visa. (In 

 Oelandia a me etiam lecta.l 



Lycoperdina succincta. In Lycoperdo ad Lassor 

 in insula Fårö, d. 5 Aug. individuurn 

 unicum inveni. 



