CHRYSOMELA. 
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Chryfomela cruciata f. This Angular fpccies has tha 
elytra yellow, and marked with two black lines, re fern - 
bling a crofs ; the head of a dark blue, the thorax brown, 
narrow, and cylindrical. This fpccies is frequent at 
Hamburg, where it devours the afparagus, and is fuppof- 
ed by the gardeners to have been tranfported from RuJJia 
along with that plant 
f Frifch, p. zj. } Regne Anijnale, p. 5t(j, 
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