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sphacelated points, eacli side before the ocelli is an arcuated, im- 

 pressed line; oceUi red; eyes brown, the orbits whitish-yellow; un- 

 der side of head yellowish-white, remotely, in spots confluently punc- 

 tured, the base impunctured; rostrum honey-yeUow, reaching the 

 middle of the third ventral segment, the labium and tip embrowned, 

 basal joint a little longer than the head, second a little longer than 

 the fii-st, third and fourth together about equal to the second; an- 

 tennse black, hairy, piceous at base, the apical joint white except at 

 base, the basal joint stoutest, extending a little beyond the apex of 

 the head, the fourth and fifth joints fusiform, equal in length, third 

 joint a httle the longest. Pronotum ivory yellowish, coarsely, deeply 

 punctured with fuscous, freckled with brown between the punctures, 

 very moderately convex, almost flattened on the middle, callosities 

 smooth, transverse, widely separated, very indistinctly elevated, before 

 them is a broad, deep, transverse impression, and around them are 

 several sphacelated whitish dots, arranged in transverse series, ante- 

 rior margin excavated to receive the convex occiput, lateral margins 

 oblique, sUghtly rounded, with a minute tubercle on the blunt anterior 

 angles; humeral angles almost truncated, slightly convex, the humeri 

 elevated; posterior margin faintly bisiuuate. Pectus finely, closely 

 punctured, medio- and post-pectus rugulose, dark piceous, with a few 

 whitish sphacelated points; posterior margin of the post-pectus white 

 with a hue of red exteriorly; legs pale testaceous, minutely punctured 

 with brown, unguiculi black. Scutellum punctured like the prono- 

 tum, long, not suddenly sinuatcd on the sides, bluntly rounded at tip, 

 on each basal angle is a large, yellow, round spot, encircled with 

 brown. Hemelytra broadly rounded on the exterior margin, paler 

 than the pronotum, rather uniformly punctured with fuscous, not 

 mottled between the punctures, infuscated at base, the nerves much 

 elevated, rib-like, whitish, as also the sutures and interstitial lines, on 

 the disk is a rounded black spot; embolium coarsely punctured with 

 fuscous; membrane pale brownish, deeply infuscated within at base, 

 wings shghtly brownish, the nervures and costal margin brown, as 

 well as the surface adjoining them, nervures of the posterior edge 

 darker brown. Terguni pale yellowish-i)iceous, except at tijj, where 

 it is deep piceous, connexivum yellow, confluently punctured with 

 brown; venter embrowned at sides and behind, a broad, smooth, 

 polished, piceous stripe, rounded at the tijD, occupies the disk from 

 near the base to the penultimate segment; punctures fine, deep, con- 

 fluent, fuscous. 



