CHRYSOMELA PURPURASCENS Germ. 
PURPURASCENS: thoracis margine elevato, oblonga, convexa, 
purpureo- aenea, antennis rufis , ejytris vage profundius punctatis, in- 
terftiliis fubtiliter punctatis. (Muf, Germ.) 
Habitat prope Schandaviam in Saxonia. C. a Tifcher. 
ProximeS affinis Cbryfom. heRiifphaericae Germ. (it. Dalm. 204 » 
125.) fed paullo oblongior, profundius ac deniius punctata. Caput 
antice obtufe rotundatum, fupra obfolete et fubtiliter punctatum, li- 
nea femicirculari impreffa, poftice canaliculatum, labro transver- 
fo- quadrato, exferto. Thorax longitudine duplo latior, antice 
crnarginatus , anguflior, angulis prorginulis, lateribus rotundatus, et 
margine latius incraffato, poftice rotundatus, fupra fubtiliter, fed 
diftincte punctatus, punctis in medio difci evanefceniibus. Scutel- 
(Falc. V. Tab. 6.) 
