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Kraatz Ins. D. II, 409; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 157; Hey Bre'vip. 1883, 

 142; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 342). 



Easily identified by the light antennae, and the conspicuous 

 spot on humerus. 



Pitch-bi^ack , shiny; side-margins of pronotum, occasionally also 

 its fore- and hind-margin, as well as the posterior margins of the 

 abdominal joints translucid reddish; elytra brownish-black with a 

 large yellowish-red or brownish-red, posteriorly not sharply bound- 

 ed spot on humerus; antennae rust-colored, their base, mouth-parts, 

 and legs reddish-yellow. 



Head and pronotum vnith very fine-j but not dense punctation, the 

 background surface very finely transversely aciculate; antennae 

 rather short and robust, their medial and next-last Joints broader 

 than long; pronotum at middle amply as broad as elytra; these about 

 1§ times as long as pronotum and mors distinctly punctate than this, 

 the surface very finely reticulate-aciculated j abdomen tapering, very 

 , dense, finely punctate, with two feeble hair-spots on middle of tne 

 two first free dorsal joints, and an outstanding bristle on side- 

 margin of each of the next-last. L. 5-6 mm. 



Of O the middle-lobe on the abdominal sixth free dorsal joint is 

 somewhat longer than the bristle-bearing side-lobes, and by a small 

 incision divided into two obtuse teeth. Of Q the middle-lobe of the 

 same joint is by a deep, at bottom rounded incision divided into two 

 small points, which reach as far forward as the almost pencil-shap- 

 ea, bristle-bearing side-lobes (Fig. 106). 



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