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granulate. Elytra foveo-reticulate, interstices costate, fourth 

 and sixth obsolete, subsutural wanting in anterior half; fascicles 

 widely separated; forceps transverse. Black, subnitid, sparingly 

 clothed in elytral foveas with minute cinereous scales. Setae 

 black, abdominal fascicles dark brown. 



Head large, convex, almost completely hidden by prothorax. 

 Rostrum short, thick, separated from head by a transverse sulcus. 

 External ridges parallel, separated from internal ridges by an 

 oblique groove posteriorly. Internal ridges low, separated by 

 median notch. Emargination moderate. Mandibles rounded, 

 inner glabrous portion projecting slightly beyond outer, which is 

 opaque and clothed with long black setse. Strong gular horn 

 l)rojecting back from mentum, tongue-shaped as viewed from in 

 front, triangular from the side. Prothorax longer than wide 

 (8x7 mm.), broadest in front of middle, rounded to base and 

 apex; median lobe strongly produced, overhanging head; disc 

 somewhat flattened, with a feeble collar-constriction anteriorly 

 and an ill-defined median impression. Coarsely granulate, 

 granules round, feebly flattened, each bearing a minute black 

 seta. Elytra oblong, convex, strongly declivous(15-5 x 9 mm.). 

 Sides evenly widened from base to behind middle; apex abruptly 

 rounded, mucronate; base slightly arcuate, thickened at shoulders, 

 but nob tuberculiform. Striae three in number, very broad, 

 equal (excepting the apical portion of the first, which is sub- 

 divided into two) to the width of two ordinary striae, transversely 

 foveate, the ridges between the foveas transverse, wavy, and each 

 bearing two minute setae. Interstices costate, narrow, pro- 

 minent, first only present in anterior half, thence turning out- 

 wards to form the second or subsutural costa, which is only 

 present in posterior half; third, fifth, and seventh present in 

 entirety, fourth and sixth completely wanting. Sides trans- 

 versely rugose, with median longitudinal ridge. Metasternum 

 shallowly concave. Fifth ventral segment strongly excavate, the 

 excavation reaching to anterior margin, preanal fossa deep, 

 transverse, marked off in front by an overhanging ridge at the 

 ends of which the widely distant(4 mm.) fascicles are inserted, 



