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with punctures equal iu size to those of the pronotura ; 

 the sutural interstices are separated from the disk by a 

 row of deeply impressed punctures which are placed very 

 close together. Besides with the two convex yellow spots 

 each elytron is provided with 5 rows of tubercles, the 

 tubercles of the two innermost rows are larger and more 

 or less roundish, those of the two following rows are 

 smaller and narrow, and those of the 5^1» or outermost 

 row very small and narrow. 



The under surface of the head (with the exception 

 of the throat) is covered with deep punctures ; on the 

 sides of the prosternum the punctures are larger, eva- 

 nescent however towards the front angles, the intercoxal 

 part has raised lateral margins which are divergent to- 

 wards the mesosternum ; the sides of the metasternum, 

 especially anteriorly, are deeply punctured. — The abdomen 

 is very finely punctured, the punctures are more distinct 

 towards the sides than along the middle. 



(ƒ. On the metasternum, at both sides of the impressed 

 middle-line and at some distance from it, there is a 

 shallow longitudinal impression which is provided with a 

 narrow, slightly oblique streak of densely set erect rufous 

 hairs ^). The basal ventral segment has the space between 

 the posterior coxae, till slightly beyond the middle of the 

 segment, flattened and rather densely covered with strong 

 punctures which partly bear an erect hair '^). The 5^^ or 

 apical ventral segment is broadly truncate at the end 

 and provided with a large, ill-defined, very finely punctured 

 impression. The anterior tibiae are curved, especially their 

 inner margin and here, between the curvature and the 

 apex, a small rounded lobe occurs ; the posterior tibiae are 

 straight, not compressed, slightly constricted at their api- 

 cal half. 



1) These hairy spots are conspicuously larger in the new species than 

 in Lesnei. 



2) No acute tubercle on the middle of the hindborder of this punctured 

 spot, as is present in Lesnei, but a small nearly impunctate space. 



Notes from tlie Leydcn Museuru, \7ol. XXVIII. 



