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apical angles of the segments infuscated and with a small subim- 

 pressed comma-shaped fuscous spot immediately })efore and sliglitly 

 on the inside of the spiracles which are also often narrowly encircled 

 by fuscous, the ventral surface finely and sparsely punctate with 

 brown, the punctures darker and more aggregated inside the level 

 cif the spiracles where they form a longitudinal band largely inter- 

 rupted in tlie basal half of the segments within the spiracles by a 

 transverse subtriangular exteriorly truncate spot in which the very 

 fine punctures are colourless, as they also are in the median part 

 of tlie disk and in a broad percurrent sublateral vitta inwardly 

 reaching the spiracles, the ventral puncturation sometimes almost 

 entirely concolorous. the only remains of the darkly punctate intra- 

 spiracular vitta being a few fuscous points forming a curved vitta 

 lietAveen the basal margin of the segments and the interior end of 

 the transverse impression beginning l>ehind the spiracles, and a 

 small transverse cluster of fuscous points of the apical margin of 

 the segments; antennae (at least the three first joints), rostrum 

 (except the piceous apical joint), and legs dark testaceous, femora 

 and tibiae finely dotted with brown. Head a little broader than 

 long, and about one-fourth shorter than pronotum in the middle, 

 clypeus a little longer than juga, narrowing from base to near apex, 

 its apical j^art deflected, juga with their apices approaching each 

 other over the clypeus behind its apex, the apical part of their inner 

 margin almost perpendicularly deflected (a character well seen from 

 the front), vertex gibbous, first antennal joint rather stout, slightly 

 curved, somewhat shorter than head and passing its apex by about 

 three-fourths its own length, second joint one-third shorter than 

 first, third twice the length of second (last two joints wanting), 

 rostrum reaching base venter, first joint reaching base of head, 

 second slightly shorter than the last two together. Pronotum with 

 the lateral margins almost straight or very slighly sinuate, their 

 anterior third very obscurely crenulated, humeral angles a little 

 prominent, right-angled. Scutellum subecjual in length to head 

 and pronotum together, the postfrenal part distinctly longer than 

 broad, narrowing from the base. Hemelytra slightly passing apex 

 of abdomen, costal margin of corium straight near the base, then 

 ampliately rounded, apical margin straight. Abdomen broader 

 than the hemelytra, beneath somewhat flattened in the middle, but 

 witli the ventral furrow only reaching middle of third segment, 

 fourth and fifth ventral segments in the male a little before the 

 median part of the apical margin with a transver.se series of stiff 

 hairs ai-ising fi'om minute brown points, sixth male ventral segment 



