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alte elevata, basi retusa, haucl iinpressa, subtiliter, le- 

 mote punctulala, nigra, opaca; singulo elytro foveis cir- 

 citer undecim majoribus, rotundis, lundo atro-lioloseri- 

 ceis, sex in disco, quinque in niargine, foveolisque parvis 

 prope suturam; pone calluin humeralem macula parva, 

 irregulari et versus apicem in disco exteriore vitta an- 

 gusta silaceo-pubescentibus; margine praesertim in mcdio 

 late explanato. Corpus subtus sublilissime punctulatum, 

 nigrum, nitidum. Pedes obsolcte punclulati, similitcr co- 

 lorati, parce palbdo-pubescentes. 



9, anipliata: sub-rolundata, convcxa, nigra, opaca; pro- 

 thorace sub-laevi, anlice obsolete imprcsso, utrinque 

 arcu e pube grisca; elytris mcdiocriter, sat crcbre pnn- 

 ctatis, obsolcle rugosis, pubc brevissima, albida par- 

 cissime adspersis, antice retusis, conico-gibbosis, me- 

 dio sub-angulariter valde ampliatis; margine late ex- 

 planato, remotius punctato. - — Long. 191, lat. 18| 

 millim. 



Patria: Bahia Brasiliai Dom. Com. Mannerheim, Mus. 

 Reg. Holm. 



Magnitudo et fere slatura M. denudatce , nonnihil 

 brevior, elytris in medio magis anipliatis, sub-denudatis, 

 profundius punctatis, gibbo dorsali validiori, minus acuto, 

 maigine rugoso, non fovcolato. Caput subtiliter rugu- 

 loso-punctatum , nigrum, opacum, parce cinereo-pube- 

 sccns, medio tenuiter canaliculatum ; oculis ovatis, mo- 

 dicc convexis, brunncis. Antennoe nigra^, cxtrorsunt pu- 

 bcsccntes. Prolhorax latitudine postica duplo brevior, 

 apice late, leviter rotundato-emarginatus, niox pone api- 

 cem ultra medium oblique ampliatus, dein versus basin 

 sub-rotundatus, extrorsum tenue rellexo-marginatus; po- 

 sticc utrincjuc leviter sinuatus, supra kcvis, in dorso pa- 

 ullo convexus, mcdio canalicula tcnui, brevi insculptus, 

 intra apicem obsolcte imprcssus, cxtrorsum explanatus; 

 niger, opacus, utrinque arcu magno, grisco-pubescente, 

 introrsum emaroinato. Scutellum trianirularc, la^ve, ni- 

 grum, sub-nitidum, Elylra prolhorace Iriplo longiora 



