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joint) black or dark pitchy, whereas an infuscate stripe is 

 present along the upperside of the anterior femora. 



Head strongly produced in front of the eyes, with a 

 raised streak along the middle, deeply punctured, the 

 punctures in the raised middle portion large and remote, 

 near the eyes they are smaller and placed closer together, 

 in front they are very small. 



Prothorax subtransverse, widest at the base, narrowing 

 in slightly curved lines to the front; the sides are irre- 

 gularly crenulate, the front augles produced; the base is 

 deeply bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, the median lobe 

 subtruncate and with a punctiform impression ; the disk 

 strongly and regularly closely punctured, with the usual 

 nearly impunctate raised patches, viz. a mesial forked one 

 extending from the base on to the anterior margin, an 

 elongate slightly oblique basal one on each side of the 

 former, and a smaller one in front of the oblique basal 

 patches. The scutellum is subquadrate and transverse. — 

 The brassy green lateral portions of the prosternum are 

 smooth and show a few large punctures along the inner 

 edge; on the middle of the metasternum, on both sides of 

 the mesial line, a very minute punctuation is present, which 

 bears an exceedingly fine, almost imperceptible pubescence ; 

 at the sides of the metasternum a group of very distinct 

 punctures may be observed. 



Elytra subparallel, almost inconspicuously narrowing in 

 faintly convex lines, broadly and almost conjointly rounded 

 at the apex where they are dehiscent and show a trace of 

 a sutural spine; behind the posterior yellow spot the outer 

 margin of the left elytron shows three very distinct angular 

 notches, that of the right elytron two similar ones; each 

 elytron with ten regular punctured striae of which the 

 4 tu and 5 tu are interrupted by the yellow convex spots and 

 are not continued behind the posterior ones; the punctures 

 in the striae become larger towards the sides ; the inter- 

 stices between the 1 st and 5 th striae are slightly convex, 

 those between the 1 st and 2 nd and between the 2 nd and 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXV. 



