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thorax mainly with brown, trivittate with grey on disc, elytra 

 closely clothed with grey and with symmetrical black felt-like 

 patches, three along second stria, separated by even distances 

 less than the length of the patches, the last patch on declivity, 

 lifth stria with a narrow longitudinal patch continuous from 

 middle down declivity, interrupted anterior to middle ; beneath 

 each segment feebly maculate with greyish. 



Head convex, feebly flattened in front, much in the same 

 plane as rostrum, sparingly setose. Rostrum rather narrow, 

 separated from head by a slight constriction, deeply excavate 

 in front : external ridges subparallel, slightly constricted about 

 middle ; internal equally prominent but narrower than exter- 

 nal, median area deeply sunken in front, continued as a nar- 

 rowing sulcus to base ; sublateral sulci moderately deep, fovei- 

 form. Scrobes deep, communicating behind with a second 

 fossa extending to, and in front of, eye. Eyes subrotundate. 

 Scape long. Prothorax (4 x 4-5 mm.) not greatly ampliate, 

 postocular sinuosity fairly deep, disc with a well-defined, sub- 

 apical, transverse constriction, most marked at sides ; median 

 line evidently though not deeply impressed ; setigero-granulate, 

 granules small, obscured by clothing, somewhat irregular in 

 distribution, absent along median line ; sides only granulate 

 above. Elytra (10x6-5 mm.) gradually widened on sides, 

 apex rounded, feebly mucronate, base moderately deeply arcu- 

 ate, humeral angles prominent, slightly out-turned ; disc with 

 regular rows of punctures or small foveae, slightly transverse, 

 the ridges between not raised ; interstices raised, fourth and 

 sixth less prominent, setigerous in single series, duplicated in 

 middle of second and third, the more lateral interstices shew- 

 ing evidences of granulation ; setae long, brownish ; sides foveo- 

 striate, middle interstice with a row of granules along either 

 side. Intermediates long, fifth with a feeble median impres- 

 sion bounded on each side by two small elevations hardly 

 tubercles, the posterior pair closer together. Anterior femora 

 strongly ridged beneath in outer half; tibiae simple Dimen- 

 sions: cf, 15x6-5 mm. 



