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3rd taken together ; the remainder (the apical one excepted) 

 diifering but little in length from one another, the 2nd curved 

 externally, the 3rd obconic, the 4th and 5th moniliform, 

 the others almost obconic ; the apical joints more robust 

 and perfoliate, the 9th and 10th rounded, the 11th less 

 long than the two preceding ones and acuminate at the 

 tip; the apical joints are hairy and pubescent, the others 

 simply hairy. 



The prothorax is as long as 1 ^/g the head , ovate , nar- 

 rower anteriorly than at the base where it has an elevate 

 margin , impunctate above , without any furrow and very 

 shining. 



The elytra are scarcely longer than twice the prothorax; 

 the base is emarginate , the shoulders raised and angulate , 

 the sides moderately curved and broader than the thorax, 

 the apex almost truncate with the hinder angles rounded; 

 above sulcato-punctate ; the punctures contiguous, the 1st 

 furrow impunctate , the interstices narrow and raised , the 

 2nd broader with an interrupted yellow line. 



Body beneath pitchy-brown , metasternum furrowed at 

 the apex and scattered with very minute punctures, the 

 basal segments of the abdomen not furrowed , the apical 

 margin and the other segments with a transversal row of 

 punctures. Legs robust, unarmed; femora and tibiae broad; 

 tarsi of the same length and pubescent. 



The color in this species varies in intensity. The head , 

 rostrum , antennae and legs are reddish brown ; the apical 

 margin of the rostrum , the median and basal portion of the 

 thighs , and the knees are darker , but sometimes the head too 

 is duskish : the prothorax is uniformly chestnut-pitchy or 

 with the basal and apical margin brown-reddish : the elytra 

 are piceous or pitchy-chestnut, except the apical declivity 

 this being reddish-brown , more or less infuscate ; a sutu- 

 ral black spot is sometimes perceptible behind the middle: 

 the yellow line of the 2nd interstice is interrupted or not 

 and frequently only infuscate behind the middle; in some 

 specimens two short lines are also visible at the base and 



Note» from the Tjeyden Museuoa , Vol. XIV. 



