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PLATE DLXVI. 



CHRYSOMELA ATRICILLA. ' 



BLACK-HEADED CHRYSOMELA. 

 COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 thorax marginate: wing-cafes immarginate: body oval. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 

 Head black : thorax, wing-cafes, and {hanks teftaceous. 



Chrysomela atricilla : nigra, thorace elytris tibiifque teftaceis, 

 futura nigra. Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. 1. 200. 74- 

 —Linn. Syft. Nat. 594. 55.—Gmel. 1693. 55. 



Altica atricilla. Fab. Syft. Ent. 115. 17. 



Galleruca atricilla. Fab. Ent. Syft. 1. b. 31. 89. 



A fmall fpecies: the breaft, abdomen, and pofterior thighs are 

 black. 



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