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ately emarginate. evidently not beaded ; .stdes evenly and moderately 

 arcuate to the basal seventh or eighth, there quite abruptly con- 

 stricted with sides parallel or slightly convergent to hase, the latter 

 slightly arcuate and rather coarsely but not strongly beaded, equal 

 in width to the apex; apical angles very narrowly rounded; basal 

 angles subrectangular. 



Proploird' smooth. opa(|ue, and obsoletely sculptured. 



Elytra oblong-oval, widest at the middle, a third of the length 

 longer than wide; bane feebly emarginate betAveen the rather broadly 

 rounded and slightly more antei'iorly prominent Iiumeri; sidcK evenly 

 and moderately arcuate, more strongly convergent in apical fourth 

 where they are feebly and broadly sinuate, the apex appearing some- 

 what produced and subparabolically rounded ; (Jisc flat to feebly con- 

 vex, limited laterally from the obliquely inflexed sides by an acute 

 margin, that does not attain the apex, arcuately declivous pos- 

 teriorly in apical third; .siirfdce irregularly and not densely subas- 

 perately punctate, at times there is a distinct tendency to a serial 

 arrangement, the punctures are slightly denser and a little moi'e 

 muricate at the periphery, the acute margin is subserrulate ; inflexed 

 sides more or less obsoletely punctate. 



E piple^ira' narrow and not dilated at the base, gradually narrow- 

 ing to apex; surface smooth and impunctate; superior mai'gin not 

 defined in basal half, thence to apex well developed. 



Sterna quite smooth and more or less obsoletely sculptured. 



Parapleuviv rather coarsely and more or less obscurely punctate. 



Ahdornen smooth, very sparsely and finely punctulate, more or less 

 obsoletely rugulose; punctules more distinct and denser on the fifth 

 segment. 



Legs slender and moderate in length, femora mutic, anterior tibial 

 spurs subequal and the tarsi similar in the sexes. 



Male. — Unknown to me, the secondary sexual characters are \)Yoh- 

 ably as in ph/mim. 



Female.- — Moderately broad. Abdomen not very strongly l)ut 

 evenly convex. Anterior tibia^ quite gradually and slightly sinuate at 

 base. 



Mea^^iircineiits. — Males: Not studied. Females: Length. 18-21.5 

 mm ; width. 9-10 mm. 



Genital rh(i)'acte?'s, male. — Not studied. 



Female.^GenitRl segment elongate and triangular in outline, dor- 

 sal surface more or less transversely ogival in section, impunctate and 

 not setose. 



Valrvla (Plate 5, fig. 20). — Dorsal plate oblong-triangular, about 

 four times longer than wide; surface feebly convex basally and 

 concave apically; external border more or less sinuous; internal bor- 

 der nearly straight and somewhat beaded; apical margin arcuate in 



