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PLATE XXVIII. 



CHRYSOMELA ASPARAGI. 



COLEOPTERA. 



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GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas moniliform : feelers fix, growing larger towards the end : 

 thorax marginate : wing-cafes immarginate : body moftly oval, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



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SYNONYMS. 



Thorax red, with two black dots: wing-cafes yellow, with a crofs 

 and four dots- of black. 



Crioceris Asparagi : thorace rubro : pun&is duobus nigris, 



coleoptris flavis : cruce punctifque quatuor nigris. 



Fabr. Sp. Inf. 1. p. 155. n. 35. — Mant. Inf. 1. 



p. 90. n. 45. 

 Chrysomela Asparagi. Linn. Syfl. Nat. xii. 2. p. 601. n. 112. 



— Fn. Suec. 567. 

 Crioceris Geoffr. Far. Inf. 1. 241. n. 3. 

 Attelabus Asparagi. Scop. Ent. Cam. 113. 



This pretty coleopterous infeft is found in June on the Afparagus, 

 when in feed. Linnaeus calls it Afparagi, fromjhe larva feeding on 



the 



