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Head quadrate in front of antennal tubercles, slightly narrower 

 above, and nearly flat, moderately angularly depressed between the 

 antennal tubercles, which are moderately developed and rather widely 

 separated, the surface not very densely clothed with short, recum- 

 bent, whitish and brownish pubescence, which does not quite con- 

 ceal it, and with an obsolete narrow longitudinal groove extending 

 from the epistoma to occiput; e3'es rather large, not very coarsely 

 granulated, deeply emarginate, and separated from each other on the 

 top by about three-fourths the width of the emargination of the 

 eyes in front, the lower lobes rounded, and the upper lobes narrow. 

 Antennae slightly longer than the body, the joints to the fifth mot- 

 tled dark brown and white, those beyond cinereous, and all the 

 joints annulated with dark brown at the apex and base; first joint 

 rather slender, subcylindrical, gradually expanded toward apex, ex- 

 tending to about middle of pronotum, and subequal in length to the 

 third joint, which is onl}^ slightly longer than the fourth. 



Pronotinn nearly two times as wide as long, and the apex and base 

 about equal in width ; sides feebl}'^ obliquely expanded from an- 

 terior angles to middle where they are obtusely tumid, and then 

 parallel at basal fourth ; surface with a feebl}^ transverse apical and 

 basal constriction, and seven feebly elevated tubercles on the disk, 

 four anteriorly and three posteriori}', arranged in two transverse 

 lines, with a few widely scattered coarse punctures and a more dis- 

 tinct row in the apical and basal constrictions, the surface rather 

 densely clothed with recumbent yellowish-white pubescence, and 

 ornamented with darker areas as follows : A large longitudinal spot 

 posteriorly along the lateral margin, and three more or less inter- 

 rupted longitudinal vittae on the disk, one median and one on each 

 side, and more or less connected to each other along the anterior 

 margin. Scutellum triangular, rather acutely rounded behind, and 

 the surface nearly flat and rather densely pubescent. 



Elytra three- fourths longer than wide, and one-fourth wider than 

 pronotum ; humeri rather prominent and feebly elevated ; sides arcu- 

 ately rounding, more so apically, to the tips, which are feebly 

 obliquely truncate internally, with the exterior angles obtuse, but 

 not produced; surface strongly convex, even, finely, irregularly, but 

 not very densely punctate over entire area, rather densely clothed 

 with irregular patches of pale brown and brownish-black pubescence, 

 with a few small tubercles clothed with dark brown pubescence, and 

 ornamented with a number of small, irregularly placed spots of 

 cinereous pubescence, which form a more or less distinct W at the 

 middle common to both elytra. 



Beneath densely, obsoletely punctate, and sparsely clothed with 

 cinereous and bi'OAvnisli pubescence, which gives the surface a mottled 



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