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of transverse brown lines; cheeks broad, the outer ones oblique, 

 a little expanded, and broadly rounded, very slenderly tapering 

 on the apical half. Antennaa largely piceous, or banded with 

 piceous. Pronotuni transversely rugulose, pointed with fus- 

 cous, a little punctate anteriorly and near the sides, a trans- 

 verse series of short, indented lines behind the forward margin, 

 and with a bald patch in the place of callosities; lateral margins 

 oblique, slanting beneath the middle of the eyes, the edge nar- 

 rowly recurved; propleura> dotted with fuscous, the raeso- and 

 meta-pleura3 pale, a little tinged with piceous on the disks. 

 Legs pale brownish, or dull testaceous, dotted with fuscous; the 

 coxae clouded with fuscous, and the femora and tibiaj more or less 

 piceous on the upper face, and the latter sometimes also on the 

 under face; tarsal joints either black beneath or at the apex or 

 with the last joint; nails and pulvilli piceous. Scutellum short, 

 acute, minutely rugulose and punctate at base and in 

 patches, minutely dotted with fuscous at remote, unequal in- 

 tervals. Hemelytra very broad, and with the costal margin 

 more arcuated in the female than in the male, and with the cells 

 shorter and more irregular; the nervules thick, prominent, mar- 

 gined each side, throughout, with fuscous, impressed punc- 

 tures; the costal edge thickened, a little recurved, the submar- 

 gin punctate with fuscous; apical cells longer and less oblique- 

 sided in the female than in the male. Tergum more or less 

 black, and the venter black basally, or with the disks only of 

 the segments before the apex black, or with all the segments 

 simply punctate with fuscous. The surface is generally in- 

 vested with minute, prostrate, yellowish pubescence." 



Length to tip of hemelytra, 7-9 mm. Width of prono- 

 tum, 2.5-3 'mm. 



