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sutural longitudinal whitish stripe and a shorter 

 one near the sides. 



Head impunctate, black; antennae half the length of 

 the body , black , the last (in one specimen the two last) 

 joint whitish , its extreme apex black , the second and 

 third joints short , equal ; thorax narrowly transverse , 

 more than twice as broad as long, the sides straight, wi- 

 dened towards the base, the posterior margin rounded, 

 the surface exceedingly finely punctured and granulate , 

 with some obsolete depressions , yellowish white, the middle 

 with a large elongate black spot , pointed at its lower ex- 

 tremity ; scutellum black ; elytra ovate , convex , sculptured 

 like the thorax; if the black is taken for the ground co- 

 lour , each elytron has a broad longitudinal yellowish band 

 from the base to near the apex, placed near the suture, 

 and another similar band of half the width near the la- 

 teral margin , generally abbreviated at some distance from 

 the apex ; underside and legs black , the femora , their apices 

 excepted , flavous ; the posterior tibias with a long spine ; 

 the first joint of the posterior tarsi much longer than the 

 three following joints together ; claws appendiculate ; the 

 anterior coxal cavities open. 



In the variety the black occupies nearly the entire sides 

 of the elytra, reducing the lateral flavous band to an ex- 

 tremely narrow and short stripe, the subsutural flavous 

 stripe also varies in width; the thorax is either entirely 

 black or entirely yellowish white in some specimens. 



JNotes from the I-.eydeii M.useuni, "Vol. X. 



