tt. pronoto lineis 2 obliquis abbreviatis albis, elytris rufo-ma- 

 culatis. 



ß, minor niger, maculis solitis. 



Prosternum c? ? deeply emarginate posteriorly, angles of 

 the emargination acute; <^ with a shallow depression and g with 

 a deep fovea upon the ultimate segment of the venter." 

 Haid. 248. n. 8. 



Bei der Unklarheil dieser Beschreibung lasse ich auch noch 

 die vollständigere, von Melsheimer selbst gegebene folgen: 



„Dull rufous; thorax with the anterior and lateral margins white; 

 base, lateral margins and apex the same, the two former 

 maculate with blackish Spots. 2f I. long. Pennsylvania. 



Cryptocephalus nobilis Melsh. Catal. 



Dull rufous, shining: head sparsely punctured and impressed 

 on the front; orbits, clypeus and labrurn white; antennae pale 

 brown, with five basal joints teslaceons; thorax very minutely 

 and distantly punctured, polished, with the front and side mar- 

 gins whitish; broadly at the anterior angles; edges dusky: scu- 

 telluni dusky; elytra darker than the thorax, shining, with the 

 basal and lateral margins broadly whitish, the latter abbreviated 

 before the apex, and containing three blackish spots, of which 

 one is located on the humeral tubercle; middle of the base with 

 a large dark reddish spot; apex whitish; punctato-striate: pygi- 

 diurn strongly punctured, with the apex white; beneath blackish, 

 tinted with rufous; two or three apical Segments of abdomen 

 and feet rufous. This species varies much, and it is difficult to 

 determine which is the type. 



Var. a. As in the preceding; thorax with two oblique, ab- 

 breviated whitish basal lines; elylra with the lateral margins 

 not abbreviated, maculate with rufous. 



Var + b. Smaller than the type; head black, marked with 

 white as in the type; thorax black, highly polished and scarcely 

 punctulate, with the front ancl side margins as in the type; a 

 transverse series of four impressed points each side of the middle 

 towards the apex ; elytra black, punctato-striate; basal edge, apex 

 and lateral margins white, inner side of the latter bisinuate; hu- 

 meral tubercles black; feet as in the type; antennae color of the 



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