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Head with the front narrow, nearly flat, about equal in width at 

 top and bottom, lateral margins parallel, vaguely, longitudinally 

 depressed ; surface coarsely, deeply, irregularly rugose, coarsely punc- 

 tate between the rugae, sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, white 

 hairs; epistoma narrow between the antennae, not elevated, but 

 broadly, arcuately emarginate in front; antenna moderately long, 

 serrate from the fifth joint, the outer joints triangular and about as 

 long as wide ; eyes large, oval, equally rounded above and beneath, 



Pronotum slightly wider than long, subequal in width at base and 

 apex, widest at middle; sides rather strongly, arcuately rounded 

 from apical angles to posterior angles, which are rectangular ; when 

 viewed from the side the marginal carina nearly straight, the sub- 

 marginal carina feebly sinuate, and the two carimie narrowly sep- 

 arated for their entire length ; anterior margin strongly sinuate, the 

 median lobe very strongly produced and broadly rounded ; base 

 broadly, angularly emarginate at middle of each elytron, with the 

 median lobe strongly produced and broadly rounded ; disk moder- 

 ately convex anteriorly, feebly, transversely flattened on basal half, 

 the flattened area extending obliquely forward on each side to the 

 lateral margin at apical third, without prehumeral carinae or round 

 swellings near posterior angles; surface coarsely, deeply, more or 

 less transversely rugose, finely, sparsely punctate between the rugae, 

 nearly glabrous. Scutellum feebly, transversely carinate the sur- 

 face densely, finelj'^ reticulate. 



Elytra slightly wider than pronotum at base, slightly narrower at 

 base than behind middle; sides parallel for a short distance behind 

 base, feebly, broadly, arcuately constricted in front of middle, arcu- 

 ately expanded behind middle, then obliquely narrowed to near the 

 tips, where they are vaguely expanded, the tips separately broadly 

 rounded and rather coarsely serrulate ; sides of abdomen not exposed 

 above ; disk feebly flattened along sutural margins, which are slightly 

 elevated posteriorly, with broad, moderately deep, basal depressions, 

 and a vague, obtuse, longitudinal costa at middle of each elytron; 

 surface densely, coarsely imbricate-punctate, sparsely, uniformly 

 clothed with short, semierect, inconspicuous, white hairs. 



Abdomen beneath feebly granulose, densely marked with trans- 

 verse, crenulate lines, which are coarser on basal segment, finely, 

 rather densely pun.ctate, and rather densely, uniformly clothed with 

 short, recumbent, whitish hairs; first segment strongly convex at 

 middle, the suture between the first and second segments not indi- 

 cated at the sides; last segment broadly rounded at apex; vertical 

 portions of the segments not conspicuously pubescent; pygidium 

 coarsely, densely punctate, without a projecting carina at apex. 

 Prosternum rather coarsely, sparsely punctate, sparsely clothed with 

 long, erect, white hairs; prosternal lobe broad, strongly declivous, 



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