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PLATE XCIX, 



CHRYSOMELA BILITURALA. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Wings two, covered by two fhells, divided by a longitudinal 

 future. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Antennae knotted, enlarging towards the end. Corfelet margined. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae near the length of the body, black. Head, thorax, and 

 underfide, black. Shells red, inclining to yellow brown, with a broad 

 longitudinal black ftripe extending from the bafe, nearly to the extre- 

 mity of each. 



This Infect is defcribed in the manufcripts of T. Marsham, Esq^ 

 s. l. s. who favoured me with the fpecimen from which the figure in 

 the annexed plate is copied ; it does not appear to have been either 

 figured or defcribed in any preceding Natural Hiftory, and may there- 

 fore be efteemed as a rare Infe£t. The fpeciflc name bilitirraJa is 

 adopted from that Gentleman's manufcripts by permiiHon. 



Is found on Hornbeam in May. 



