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line tliat sends off a short branch each side of the base 

 of the front; supra-antennal lobes short; marked with 

 a black spot at the inner angle, the anterior margin also 

 black nntil near the eye; front yellow, marked with 

 black curved bands above, with the middle line smooth 

 and unevenly grooved. Rostrum reaching the posterior 

 coxae, piceous at tip. Front of pronotum much narrower 

 than the head, remotely, minutely bronze pubescent, 

 with the two exterior sutures, the aj)ical half of the 

 inner diagonal suture, connected with a hook posteriorly, 

 two impressed dots at the forward end of the smooth 

 middle line, and sutures posteriorly of the same line 

 black; the lateral margin broad and flat, with the edge 

 a little reflexed, marked with a black dot behind the 

 middle, and powdered with white anteriorly ; the humeral 

 angles wide, bluntly rounded, pale fulvous like the pos- 

 terior margin. Mesonotum strongly convex, pale chestnut 

 brown, marked with four wedge-shaped black spots 

 with rounded ends, the exterior pair being longer and 

 followed exteriorly by a streak of the same color, a tinge 

 of piceous across the disk, and each side back of this is 

 a round black dot, the sides and area around the cross 

 silvery pubescent, the cross compact, and with the arms 

 strongly raised and curved; metomotal drum-segment 

 long, convex, highly polished, chestnut brown, broadly 

 tinged with piceous with the ample drum-covers pale. 

 Underside pale ochre yellow coated with white. The 

 opercula are less than half as long as the venter, pale 

 ochreous, powdered with white, separated in the middle, 

 bluntly rounded at the end. ■ Legs pale ochreous, the 

 anterior femora short and stout, with the surface above 

 and below more or less piceous, the two spines long and 

 stout, piceous beyond the base, the middle and posterior 

 femora feebly carinated, the former set on both inner 

 and outer surface with minute, black, spinous granules; 

 tibiae sharp-edged, with the spines more or less black, 



