BV II. J. CARTEK. Ill 



patches on the elytral margins; antenn*, palpi, and tar^ii reddish, 

 with apical joints of the first lighter. 



Head finely rugose, with onl}' a portion of the eyes and fore- 

 head not covered by the prothoracic processes; labrum red, trun- 

 cate and protuberant; eyes round, large, flat, close, and coarsely 

 faceted; antennas nearly extending to base of prothorax, third 

 joint cylindrical and thinner than the succeeding, as long as the 

 fourth and fifth combined, 4-8 obconic, gradually more transverse, 

 9-10 widely oval, eleventh largest and spheroidal. Prothorax 

 transverse (5x9 mm.), glabrous, widest at base, narrowed semi- 

 circularly to apex, anterior processes widely truncate at apex, 

 and just overlapping, the perforation enclosing head forming 

 nearly a complete circle of 2 mm. diameter, with the basal margin 

 a little intrusive; foliate margins wide, with raised thickened 

 border obliquely flattened on its edge, posterior angles acute and 

 closely fitting base of elytra; margins finely punctured and 

 granulose, base of margins strongly serrated; disc rather flat, 

 minutely rugose, with central carina uniformly raised (not denti- 

 form) from base almost to apical margin, the former thinly, the 

 latter not perceptibly bordered. Elytra parallel fcjr two-thirds 

 of their length, longer than broad (11 x 10 mm.), more convex 

 than prothorax, with flattened foliate .sides of the same width as 

 those of the prothorax, slightly narrowed at tipex. shoulders 

 rather square with the extreme angle rounded, apex squarely 

 rounded, border strongly raised, with oblique edge of the same 

 width as that of prothorax and a little concave; disc furnished 

 with two strongly raised sub|)arallel costse very close together 

 (less than 1 mm. apart), extending from the base almost to apex 

 of disc, a little divergent^ at base, and convergent and closely 

 a.()proximate at apex, near which they abruptly end, suture 

 faintly carinate near ape^ O'lly; outside the costte on each elytron 

 four rows of thinly arranged tufts of long piceous hair, the 

 external rows closer thiin the rest, eacli tuft consistini; of two 

 or three coarse upright hairs curved at the tips, with about 

 fifteen such tufts in a single row, otherwise glabrous; disc 

 coarsely and irregularly lineate-punctate. Abdomen glabrous. 



