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Oval, conA'ex, black, densely clothed with very short yellow hairs. 

 Clavus %vith a narrow, pointed, subapical, yellow spot ; corium ; 

 on tlie anterior margin 2 long yellow spots, interior to these a 

 row of 3 spots, the 2nd and 3rd round and white ; beyond these 

 a faint, long, yellow ring on the basal \ of the disk, followed by 

 a long yellow streak. Legs yellow. 



Head. — Clypeus, on its anterior margin, and the l<'ace, pale or 

 dusky yellow. Antennce black, 1st joint above, and generally the 

 2nd before the apex, yellow-brown. Eyes black. Ocelli reddish. 

 Host rum piceous ; lahrum yellowish. 



Thorax. — Pronotum roundly narrowed to the front; sides flat- 

 tened, but raised within the hinder angles, the margins rounded, 

 narrowly reflexed ; posterior margin deeply, somewhat squarely con- 

 cave across the scutellum, the ends roundly produced over the base 

 of the elytra; disk very finely punctured, the callosity occupying 

 nearly frds of the length, the posterior furrow deep, the single cen- 

 tral fovea deep. Scutellum convex, slightly shining ; basal \ finely 

 punctured, posterior ^ very finely crenate ; the depression large, 

 posteriorly straight. Elytra dull ; Clavus with a narrow, pointed 

 spot before the apex ; Corium ; sides widely flattened as far as the 

 middle; the margin with a long, narrow, yellow spot in the middle, 

 and a shorter one before, and not reaching to, the apex ; disk out- 

 side the 1st nerve, with 3 spots in a row, 1 longish, duU yellow, 

 before the middle, the 2 others round and whitish, 1 of them rather 

 beyond the middle, the other opposite the 2nd marginal spot ; 

 beyond the 1st nerve, on the basal |, a long faint ocellus, formed by 

 a narrow, yellowish, oval ring, enclosing a space of the ground 

 colour, its basal end being clearer ; in a line with this, near the pos- 

 terior margin, a long yellow streak (sometimes there is a faint, yel- 

 lowish, interrupted line more towards the inner margin ; and some- 

 times the w^hole of the yellowish marks on the corium are of larger 

 size, giving a more speckled appearance) ; Memhrane yellowish, the 

 suture and nerves black ; the 1st nerve often yellow at its base ; 

 between the nerves, beyond the middle, a transverse row of long 

 blackish spots ; nearer the base an irregular black spot in the 2nd, 

 3rd, and Ith cells (sometimes in the 2nd and 3rd only) ; margin 

 with a long black spot at the end of the 1st nerve, preceded and fol- 

 lowed by a yellow spot ; the rest of the margin fuscous-brown, 

 sometimes yellowish internally. Lrys pale yellow ; thiyhs with fine, 



