CRFPTOCEPHALVS. 1 39 



pun&ata , teftacea , margine omni dilutiore. 

 Ala ampias, fusco-hyalinae. Peclus & Abdo- 

 men tefUcea, interdum fuscescentia. Pedes 

 teftacei. Crypt. Cordigero quadrupio eit mi- 

 nor. 



Var. /3. 



Niger, thorr.ce fupra, eiytrorum Jimbo pe- 

 dibusque teftaceis. 



Hahii+ t in Botnia Occidentali & in vicinU 

 tate Alpiurn Dalecarlia. 

 Obs. M tjxnitudine, ftatura & habitu omnino 

 varietati praecedenti limJllima, at diflfert ely» 

 trorum disco, pe&ore abdomineque nigris. 



XII. CRYPT. Sericeus viridi- aureus , thorace 

 punclulato y elytris fubtilisfime rugofis abdo- 

 mine brevioribnp, apicc dehiscentibus. 

 Fabr. Ent. Syfl. i. p. 2. p. 63. 56. Crypt.fericeus* 

 L;n;n; Syfl. Nat. 2. p. 598. g6. Fn. Sv % 554. 



Crypt. fe.riceus. 

 De Geer Ins. 5. p. 334. 37. 

 Sch^eff. lcon. t. 65. f. 2, 3, 4. 



Habitat in plantis fat frequens. 

 Caput viridi-aureum, nitidum; frons fubtilis- 

 fime rugofa; os oculique nigfa; antenna di- 

 midio corpore longiores, nigne. Thorax lon- 

 gitudine antice vix dimidio, poftice haud 

 dupio latior, viridi - aureus , nitidus, fubmar- 

 ginatus, vaide convexus, fubtilisfime confer- 

 tisfime punclulatus. Scutellum fubtriangulare, 

 prominuium, viridi - aureum , vix coeruiescens. 

 Elytra thorace vix latiora & latitudine haud 

 4imidio iongiora viridi-aurea, nitida, e pun- 



clis 



