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maculae flavous, extreme margins black; scutel black, disk in- 

 distinct flavous: elytra flavous, punctate in series, extreme mar- 

 gins and disk black, with two confluent vittae, Ieaving the exte- 

 rior margin, apex and a few streaks of flavous (when the two 

 vittae are normal, they correspond with those of the two pre- 

 ceding species), abdomen rufous with silvery hairs, (three basal 

 articulations sometimes blackish;) sternum flavous, pronotum 

 slightly concave: tarsi black, exterior side of the tibiae fuscous 

 towards the apex. 



c? with a plate extending over the posterior portion of the 

 last ventral segment; prosternum with a posterior incisure, the 

 lobes of which are acute/' 



Haid. 252. n. 19. 



Gehört ohne Zweifel in die zweite Rotte, und in die nächste 

 Verwandtschaft des calidus m., von dem er sich hauptsächlich 

 durch die sehr grobe Sculptur der Deckschilde und die Ge- 

 schlechtsmerkmale des cf zu unterscheiden scheint. 



VI. Cr. amatus Haid. „Supra flavus, pronoto lateribus 

 obsolete punctulato, vittis 4 laete rufis, elytris profunde 

 serialim punctatis seriebus per paria approximatis, inter- 

 stitiis alternatim nigricantibus, subtus niger, prosterno ni- 

 gro: pedibus rufis, genubus flavis. Long. \\ lin. 



Head punctulate, flavous, with a A-formed rufous mark from 

 the vertex to the antennae; clypeus punctate, margined with ru- 

 fous; antennae fuscous, five basal articulations pale rufous, pro- 

 notum polished, scarcely punctulate, flavous, with four wide ru- 

 fous vittae subabbreviated anteriorly, the exterior one with a 

 short medial transverse line; extreme margin black posteriorly 

 and rufous anteriorly; sciüel black, disc flavous; elytra with 

 impressed discoloured punctures in series, which are arranged 

 in pairs, suture margin and base with a narrow line of black; 

 a black widely interrupted vitta between the third and fourth 

 rows of punctures ; a second abbrevialed anteriorly, between the 

 fiflh and sixth, and fiflh and seventh posteriorly; the exterior 

 vitta is between the seventh and ninlh rows anteriorly, and eigth 

 and ninth posteriorly, and from the irregularity of the rows of 

 punctures, it presents a tendency to unile with the intermediate 



