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and on the apical portion of the elytra are filled up by a 

 very short and dense whitish pubescence. — The head is 

 covered with deep punctures which however are not so 

 lar*fe and not so densely set as on the thorax and elytra; 

 the face is sparsely beset with greyish hairs, and the sides, 

 behind the antennary tubers , are speckled with small dots 

 of a short and dense whitish pubescence. The scape of the 

 antennae is slightly curved outwards and shows deep punc- 

 tures which are placed rather wide apart; it bears short 

 decumbent bristles, is speckled laterally with a whitish 

 pubescence, and densely fringed beneath with rather short 

 black hairs which disappear however towards the apex. The 

 following joints of the antennae are very finely and densely 

 sculptured in a longitudinal direction and fringed with long 

 black hairs. 



The thorax is faintly contracted before and behind the 

 middle, the front margin is straight, the basal one bisi- 

 nuate ; it is densely covered with large and deep punctures 

 and speckled laterally with small dots of a short and dense 

 whitish pubescence ; traces of a similar pubescence may be 

 observed along the middle of the back. The scutellum is 

 rounded , slightly transverse , impunctate , and vaguely im- 

 pressed in the middle. 



The elytra are somewhat broader than the base of the 

 thorax ; the shoulders are rounded , the sides nearly paral- 

 lel as far as a little before the apex where they narrow 

 rather suddenly; the apices themselves are prolonged, sharply 

 pointed at the end and divergent, leaving between their 

 inner margins an equilateral triangle. The punctures or 

 pits are still larger than those of the prothorax and more 

 or less reticulate ; several of the pits on the sides and on 

 the apical portion (and also a few ones along the suture) 

 are filled up by a short and dense dirty white pubescence ; 

 a somewhat impressed longitudinal streak , common to 

 both elytra, is present on the middle of the basal por- 

 tion. 



Body beneath not very densely covered with deep punc- 



Notes from tlie Leyclen üMiaseum , ^Vol. "VII, 



