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Oval, slightly convex, black, dull ; pronotum ou the last 3rd and 

 the elytra pale dusky ochreous, with black punctures ; antennce 

 black, in the ^ the 1st joint yellow ; legs black ; in the ^ the 

 1st pair yellow, and the 2nd and 3rd pairs with the thicjlis more 

 or less yellow at the base and upwards. 



Head with fine, appressed, yellowish hairs, and a few strong, pro- 

 jecting black hairs ou each side of the central lobe of the face ; 

 Crown smooth, sides and Face finely punctured. Antennce black, the 

 base of the joints narrowly reddish ; in the ^ the 1st joint orange. 

 Eyes brown or black. Ocelli black. Rostrum piceous ; the ends of 

 the joints paler. 



Thorax. — Pronotum ; anterior margin rather longer than the 

 width of the head, yellow-brown in the middle ; side margins yellow- 

 ish, brown on the edge ; posterior margin concave across the scutel- 

 lum, tlie ends produced roundly over the base of the clavus ; disk, 

 first frds black, finely punctured and haired, the last 3rd pale, 

 dull ochreous, smooth, with a black line on each side within the 

 margin, and round irregularly-disposed black punctures, which, in the 

 middle and near each hinder angle, are confluent and form spots. 

 Scutellu/m finely punctured. Elytra ochreous, more or less obscured 

 by the dark markings ; Clavus with 3 rows of large black punc- 

 tures, and between the inner and next row a few others, irregu- 

 larly disposed ; Corium ; anterior margin clear, unpunctured, brown 

 on the edge ; disk with large round, black punctures, which, on the 

 outer half, are irregularly disposed, on the inner half more in rows, 

 often confluent, forming broad lines, the black colour also spreading 

 out posteriorly and inwardly, and forming a large central rhomboidal 

 blotch ; the punctures on the middle of the disk few and scattered ; 

 posterior margin broadly black : Memhrane whitish, with a fuscous 

 cloud between the nerves, or wholly fuscous ; margin and nerves 

 white. Sternu7n dull black, finely crenate ; anterior margin of the 

 Prosternum, posterior margin of the Metasternum, and a large spot at 

 the base of each coxa, yellow. Legs ; end of the coxce and fulcra 

 orange-yellow ; thighs very stout, with fine short hairs, beneath on 

 the inner edge, several small spines and one larger beyond the 

 middle ; in the ^ the 1st pair wholly orange, or with a black spot ; 2nd 

 pair orange at base and apex, with a broad black spot or ring before the 

 apex ; 3rd pair black, orange at the base and apex ; in the ? all the 

 legs are black, the apex of the thighs orange ; tihiae ; 1st pair with fine 



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