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ear-like, limiting suture well marked at sides, widened be- 

 hind, with a distinct fovea on each side, the whole head 

 closely and rather coarsely punctate ; eyes large, and separ- 

 ated by a space about once and a half the transverse diameter 

 of one eye ; antennae stout and short (not reaching base of 

 prothorax), third joint scarcely equal to the two succeeding, 

 apical four successively wider and flattened, apical joint 

 nearly semicircular. Pmfliora.r, 3x7 mm., length mea- 

 sured in middle, greatest width at base, width across anterior 

 angles 4 mm. ; apex very convex, and base subtruncate at 

 middle, anterior angles feebly emarginate, rounded, and 

 widely obtuse ; sides widening in a slight curve from apex to 

 base, then rather abruptly incurved (not sinuate) and up- 

 turned at the subacute falcate posterior angle ; foliate mar- 

 gins wide, nearly flat and sloping obliquely downwards, with- 

 out lateral gutter, extreme border nitid, thin, scarcely re- 

 flexed : wider than and overlapping elytra at base, hinder 

 portion of margin much produced backward : disc finely, 

 closely punctate, central line distinctly shown by a Isevigate 

 impression, a transverse depression near base emphasising the 

 convexity. Scutellum less transverse than usual, triangular 

 and closely and evidently punctate. Elytra widely ovate, 

 length equal to width (8 mm.), greatest width behind middle, 

 very convex, with the greatest height (looking sideways) 

 behind middle : margins very narrow, flat, and reddish, but 

 evident, when viewed from above, throughout, sliglitly widest 

 near shoulders, these widely rounded : extreme border thin, 

 not channelled within and scarcely reflexed ; disc with about 

 seventeen rows of half -concealed, subobsolete punctures, the 

 rows a little irregular and obscure in places, besides a short 

 sciitellary ro\v of .similar punctures, the lateral row sliglitly 

 larger, only clearly traceable on basal half ; between each 

 fcjur rows of punctures is a subobsolete costate interval, the suture 

 slightly depressed behind scutellum, tlie suture and all inter- 

 vals almost mici'oscopically, closely punctate. Suhiuent itm 

 coarsely and closely punctate, prosternum rather flat and 



