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lar spot at the apex. Beneath purpureous, with a strong greenish or 

 bhiish tinge, more shining than above, and with the sides of the abdo- 

 men aureo-cupreous. 



Head nearly flat, with a broad longitudinal sulcus, which is nar- 

 rower and more deeply impressed on the vertex, and becoming more 

 obsolete toward the epistoma ; surface glabrous, coarsely and densely 

 punctate, the punctures rather shallow and very irregularly placed, 

 the intervals smooth and shining; epistoma broadly and deeply arcu- 

 ately emarginate in front, forming a broad obtuse tooth on each side 

 of the emargination. Pi-onotum one and three-fourths times as wide 

 as long, slightly wider in front than behind, widest at apical fourth ; 

 sides feebly arcuately expanded from anterior margin to apical 

 fourth, then slightly obliquely narrowed to the posterior angles, 

 which are rectangular ; anterior margin nearly truncate, with an ob- 

 solete median lobe ; base feebly bisinuate, the median lobe only feebly 

 indicated; disk regularly convex, with a very short narrow groove 

 terminating in a deep puncture in front of the scutellum; surface 

 coarsely, deeply, and densely punctate, the punctures irregularly 

 placed, distinctly separated on the disk, but becoming somewhat con- 

 fluent at the sides, and with an irregular, longitudinal smooth median 

 space, extending from the anterior margin to basal third, where it is 

 replaced by the longitudinal groove, the intervals finely and densel}^ 

 granulose. Scutellum oblong, nearly two times as wide as long and 

 with the surface obsoletely granulose. Elytra about as wide as pro- 

 notum at base, strongly acuminate posteriorly, allowing the abdomen 

 to be plainly visible from above on the apical half; humeral angles 

 obtusely angulated ; sides feebly expanded behind the humeral angles, 

 slightly attenuate to the apical third, Avhere they are obsoletely arcu- 

 ately rounded, then strongly, obliquely attenuate to the tips, which 

 are very acute, the lateral margins obsoletely serrate posteriorly: 

 surface striato-punctate, the striae not impressed, becoming more or 

 less confused posteriorly, and the punctures large, rather deep, and 

 irregularly placed in the striae, the intervals flat, transversely rugose, 

 and with numerous irregularly placed punctures similar to those in 

 the striae. Abdomen beneath strongly convex, rather finely, sparsely 

 punctate, and sparsely clothed with a few short recumbent cinereous 

 hairs; intervals obsoletely granulose; first abdominal segment con- 

 vex at middle, last segment subtruncate at apex. Prosternum feebly 

 transversely concave along anterior margin, which is broadly arcu- 

 ately rounded, the surface sparsely, coarsely punctate, with a few 

 very short cinereous hairs, and the intervals smooth on the median 

 parts, but becoming strongly granulose at the sides; prosternal 

 process flat, without a longitudinal sulcus, the sides slightly con- 

 cave to behind the anterior coxal cavities, where they are feebly ex- 

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