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tened at the hinder angles, which are sliglitly raised ; posterior 

 margin angularly concave. Thighs gradually clavate, the- club 

 fuscous brown at the sides, and with brown punctures in rows. 

 Genital segment in the ^f , the processes broad, the points obtuse, 

 slightly converging. 

 Head ochreous-brown, with very fine whitish hairs, finely punc- 

 tured ; Frontal process seen from above narrow, slightly convex, 

 going to a long, thin point ; viewed sideways almost semi-oval ; side 

 processes wide, convex, not much deflected, nearly parallel before the 

 eyes, slightly defined behind them. Antennce ; 1st joint pale ochreous, 

 slightly blackish on the sides of tlie base, the club short, abrupt, 

 black ; 2nd and 3rd brown-ochreous, the apex of the latter black ; 

 4th black, shining, with fine projecting black hairs. Eyes brown. 

 Ocelli ochreous. Underside brown-ochreous, finely crenate punctate. 

 JRosfruvi piceous. 



Thorax. — Sides strongly punctured ; Pronotutn ochreous, nearly 

 flat, depressed in the middle (except the keels), the sides very slightly, 

 almost imperceptibly, constricted in front ; keels strong, whitish, the 

 side ones somewhat flattened at the hinder angles, which are slightly 

 raised ; posterior margin angularly concave ; disli posteriorly slightly 

 deflected to the posterior margin ; the first 3rd with fine, tlie 

 remainder with stronger, subconfluent punctures. Scutellum whitish. 

 Elytra ; Claims and Corium shining, the nerves lustrous ; Corium ; 

 anterior margin slightly curved ; posterior margin narrowly light 

 brown ; apex finely brown margined ; Mevihrane somewhat dull, dia- 

 phanous ; in the (^ the spaces between the 2nd and 3rd, and the 

 3rd and 4th nerves, with a strong, black-brown line, the inner one 

 extending from the base almost to the posterior margin, and of 

 uniform breadth throughout, the outer one not reaching the base, 

 and very broad posteriorly ; in the ? these dark lines are mostly 

 wanting. Stermim brown-ochreous, finely crenate-punctate. Legs ; 

 CoxcB shaded with piceous ; thighs pale ochreous, gradually clavate, 

 the club fuscous-brown at the sides, and with very fine brown granu- 

 lations and punctures in rows ; tihice very thin, ochreous, or yellow- 

 ish, unicolorous throughout; tarsi; 1st joint yellow, 2nd piceous or 

 black, 3rd black. 



Abdomen above fuscous-black ; beneath strongly, distinctly punc- 

 tured, ochreous in the ? , darker and with a black -brown line on 

 each side in the ^ ; Connexiviim ochreous. Genital segments in ^ 

 raised, convex, posteriorly deflected abruptly ; the side processes 



