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taken together, fourth very slightl}' longer than the fifth, the hitter 

 with sixth, seventh, and eighth suhequal in length, the eighth feebly 

 triangular, ninth and tenth suborbicular, eleventh oval. 



PronotuTYi widest at the middle, a little less than one-half wider 

 than long and at least twice as wade as the head ; disc moderately con- 

 vex, with broad, shallow basal impressions, finely, evenly and rather 

 densely punctate, laterally feebW asperate and rugulose ; apex evenly 

 and somewhat deeply emarginate, marginal head rather fine; sides 

 broadly, evenly, and rather strongly arcuate in the anterior four-fifths, 

 thence to base oblique or more or less sinuate, marginal bead some- 

 times fine, at other times rather coarse; base squarely truncate to 

 feebly emarginate, rather coarsely margined and about two-thirds 

 wider than the apex; apical angles distinct, not acute, sometimes 

 slightly rounded ; basal angles usually rectangular, rarely slightly 

 rounded or feebly obtuse. 



Proiyleurm quite evenly and rather finely muricately punctate, at 

 times more or less rugulose. 



Elytra oblong-oval, usually widest at the base, sometimes at the 

 middle; hase truncate, slightly overlapped by and a little wider than 

 the base of the prothorax;- humeri quite rectangular, overlapped by 

 the basal angles of the prothorax ; sides subparallel to feebly arcuate, 

 more or less arcuately converging in apical third, apex obtuse; disc 

 usually flattened, very feebly to moderately convex, laterally sub- 

 acutely margined by the subhumeral costse, arcuately declivous pos- 

 teriorly, more or less costate, there being a common sutural, two discal, 

 a humeral and subhumeral costa on each elytron, alternating costse 

 being usually more or less rudimentary or obsolete, sulci more or less 

 shallow^ ; surface scabrous from rather fine, densely placed muricate 

 punctures, which become slightly tuberculiform on the slightly ele- 

 vated intervals; inflexed sides inwardly and obliquely declivous, sur- 

 face plane and muricately scabrous; pubescence clual, consisting of 

 nearly erect brownish setae, and subfusiform, paler, flattened, more 

 fragile and semi-reclining subsquamiform hairs. The costse are usu- 

 ally more coarsely nuiricate. 



EpipleurcB rather narrow and gradually diminishing in width from 

 l>ase to apex, the superior margin rather strongly and broadly sin- 

 uate beneath the humeral region ; surface evenly and muricately 

 punctate. 



Sterna more or less evenly and muricately punctured. 



Parapleural rather finely and asperately punctate. 



Abdomen somewhat shining, finely, submuricately, and rather 

 sparsely punctulate, sometimes rugulose. 



Legs somewhat slender. Anterior femora mutic; anterior tibial 

 spurs dissimilar in the sexes, the anterior spur curved, larger, and 

 longer than the posterior. Anterior tarsi slightly dissimilar in the 



