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base , narrowed towards its front margin ; the posterior 

 edges slightly angular; the basal margin sunken, the la- 

 teral margins raised and crenulated ; the anterior half of 

 the pronotum with two pair of longitudinal carinae, the 

 inner pair sharp , parallel and extending as far as the 

 front margin , the outer pair about half the length of the 

 inner pair and slightly divergent towards the front mar- 

 gin; about the middle of its length the pronotum shows 

 two lateral impressions touching the lateral margins ; the 

 basal half of the pronotum swollen and undistinctly divi- 

 ded by three longitudinal slight impressions. The disc 

 covered with a reticulate sculpture , and , especially on the 

 basal half, with erect hairs, black in some, mouse-grey in 

 other lights ; at the extreme base of the inner carinae there 

 is a little tuft of erect hairs. The thorax beneath covered with 

 umbilioate punctures, and sparingly covered with whitish 

 scales , more densely however at the sides and at the pro- 

 sternum; the mesosternum with an impressed longitudinal 

 line across the middle. 



The anterior tibiae short and broad, armed externally 

 with three stout teeth of Avhich the top is rounded; the 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae with a distinct median 

 tooth; the apical spurs of the posterior tibiae are short 

 and broa'd , the inner one obliquely truncate , the outer one 

 broadly rounded at the top ; the posterior tarsi a little 

 shorter than the posterior tibiae, their first joint of the 

 same length as the second , and much enlarged towards 

 the top. The coxae and femora sparingly covered with 

 erect elongate whitish scales , the tibiae and tarsi with 

 erect fulvous hairs; the intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 are longitudinally scratched. 



The scutellum densely covered with erect black hairs. 

 The elytra finely but closely sculptured , each of them show- 

 ing between the shoulder and the suture five fine longi- 

 tudinal striae only distinct towards the base ; the elytra 

 are covered with erect hairs which are mouse- grey or black 

 in different lights. The propygidium and pygidium closely 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum. 



