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Prothorax with a margin of round, white scales; elytra 

 with a margin of white scales and with two transverse 

 white bands extending nearly from side to side ; clypeus 

 very sharply acuminate and reflexed at the tip hirtipes, 



Prothorax with a margin of scales and having on the 



disk two arcuate ones ; elytra with two arcuate bands or 



spots; clypeus not sharply acuminate at the tip, posterior {ditiasima. 



tibiiE not densely villose \dita. 



A". Claw of hind tarsi single, not cleft (Pekitrichia). 



B^. Elytra not much narrowed towards the apex. 



C". Body not very hairy. 



Black, prothorax, elytra and legs not densely hairy; pro- 

 thorax with two discoidal scaly patches ; elytra with a few 

 flavous patches in the male plebeia. 



C. Body densely hairy especially the sides and hind legs. 



Black, elytra fulvous-brown ; abdomen clothed with 

 dense whitish hairs ; hairs on the sides and hind legs 

 black iirsus. 



Male black and entirely clothed with black hairs, 

 the hairs light-fulvous on the female ; upper side not 

 deeply punctate ni(irita. 



Male black and entirely clothed with black hairs ; 



upper side very deeply punctate ui(]rovillo>in. 



Black, with the elytra fulvous or chestnut-brown in 

 both sexes, clothed on the upper side with flavous 

 and black hairs, and fulvous hairs beneath . . . . nitidiponiix. 



Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and clothed all 



over with black hairs cofinata. 



Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and having on 

 each side a ring of whitish scales, body clothed with 

 dense greyish black hairs tidbagJnna. 



B'. Elytra distinctly attenuate towards the apex. 



Black, with the elytra fulvous or light brown, broadly 

 infuscate on the outer margins, and having there a faint 

 band of greyish white scales ; hairs on the sides and on 

 the upper edge of hind legs white ; pygidium scaly. . .. dimidiatn. 



Black, with the elytra brown in the male, or brownish- 

 red in the female; prothorax with two discoidal patches 

 of decumbent hairs ; upper side clothed with hairs, black 

 and white in the male, yellowish in the female; pygi- i cdpicola. 

 dium hairy i !<pnrui. 



Black and clothed with black hairs pulchelhi. 



Black, with two white patches on prothorax ; elytra light 

 fulvous, narrowly infuscate laterally and behind, outer 

 margins with a narrow band of white scales ; pygidium 

 and abdomen scaly pubcnda. 



