and rigid, and usually project forwards appear on the plants, and their bright colours in a direct line from the forehead, (fig. 2.) The head is rather wider than the thorax, and render them so conspicuous, that a little care will prevent any considerable number from is contracted into a short neck… … strongly punctured ; the thorax bright red, head and thorax punctured ; elytra with more faintly punctured. The wing-cases are closely punctured lines, and the punctures light yellow, with a blue-black band along irregularly scattered towards the sides and the suture, united to a quadrate…
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877 · Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851 · Photography
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