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vix, lateiibus lemote punctato, medio caiialiculato, 

 lateribus loiige ultra meclium obliquo, versus basin 

 cito angustato^ elytris sub-remote, vage punctatis, di- 

 sco multituberculatis, antice ad suturam trifoveolatis, 

 ante medium transversim elevatis, valide, acutius tu- 

 berculatis, margine undique profunde crenatis. - — 

 Long. lO^, lat, 8^ millim. 



Patria: Biasilia, Mus. Reg. Holm. 



Primo intuitu D. denticulatCR simillima, sed mi- 

 norj prothorace haud punctato, lateribus versus basin 

 citius angustato, elvtris disco crebrius, evidenter tuber- 

 culatis, dorso antico utrinque tuberculo validiori, acu- 

 tiori instructis, margine profundius crenatis, ab illa 

 abunde distincta. Caput subtiliter, crebre rugoso-puncta- 

 tum, cupreum, opacum, medio inter oculos tenuiter cana- 

 liculatum; oculis ovatis, modice convexis, dilute brunneis. 

 Antenna? basi cupreie, nitidoe, glabra?, extrorsum obscuri- 

 ores, fusco-pubescentes. Prothorax lalitudine postica du- 

 plo brevior, apice late, leviter rotundato-emarginatus, la- 

 teribus longe ultra medium oblique ampliatus, ibique 

 sinuatus, angulariter valde ampliatus, versus basin citius 

 angustatus; postice utrinque leviter bi-sinuatus, lobo me- 

 dio sub-triangulariter producto, apice sub-truncato, an- 

 gulis retrorsum nonnihil prominulis, sub-acutis; supra 

 paullo convexus, subtilissime, valde remote punctulatus, 

 medio canalicula tenui, antice posticeque abbreviata, 

 utrinque foveolis duabus, interiore parva ante, exteriore 

 pone medium nonnihil profundiori insculptus, pone 

 apicem transversim leviter impressus; fusco-cupreus, opa- 

 cus, dorso postico cyaneo-micans. Scutellum confertim 

 ruguloso-punctatum , cupreum , sub-nitidum. Elvtra pro- 

 thorace fere triplo longiora et basi ejus nonnihil latiora, 

 antice singulatim leviter sinuata, mox pone basin paullo 

 ampliata, apicem versus nonnihil angustata, apice con- 

 junctim late rotundata, supia proesertim in dorso antico 

 valde convexa , subtiliter, remote punclata, circa scutel- 

 lum fovea magna, conimuni, clevato-marginata, pone 



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