5o hisecta. Pterodicera. 



Hispe atre. Onr. Encycl. meth. , Hist. nat. , tom. 7, 



P- 99- 



Hispe tres-noire. Latr. Hist. nat. des Crust. et des Jnsect., 



tom. 12 , p. ig; et tom. 11 , tab. g3, fig. 6. 



Hispa spinosa. Fae. System. eleut. , tom. 2 , p. 58. 



Hispa atra. Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. , fasc. 96 , fig. 8. 



Criocere chdtaigne noire. Geoff. Hist. des Insect. , tom. l , 

 p. 243. 



Habitat in Europa Australi, graminibus, frequens in Gallia 

 Meridicmali. 



B. Antennarum basis thorace scepissime occultata ; caput ho- 

 rizontaliter sub thorace absconditum aut in illius incisura 

 antica receptum ; ore in sterno antico excipiendo. 



( Corpus clypeiforme, suborbiculare, infra planum ; disco sursum 

 elevato ; thorace saepius semicirculari ; elytrorum limbo sw- 

 pius dilatato. ) 



CCCXXII. Genus. Imatidium. Imatidie. 



Imatidium , Fabricii. 



Antenncv; penitus exsertse, ad basin thorace non oc- 

 cultatae. 



Corpus subquadratum. Thorax transverso-sunquadra- 

 tus, marginatus; lateribus rotundatis ; margine antico 

 recta transverso, in nonnullis emarginato. 



Spec. 1. Imatidivm Leayanum. Imatidie de Leay. 



I. Pallide rufescenti-flavidum, nilidum; antennis ( basi ex- 

 cepta) tarsisque nigris ; thorace valde marginato , canaliculato , 

 antice late emarginato ; marginis postici medio in angulum 

 scutellarem dilatato ; elytris violaceis, profunde impresso-punc- 

 tatis, rugosis , lineis aliquot elevatis, confusis. 



Tab. XI, fig. 7. 



In bonorem domini Alex. Macleay , angli , rerum natura- 

 lium doctrina pra?cellentis , qui insectis preliosis plurimis me 



