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 joint is ver/ short and thin, subulifo'pmi •'- • For the rest note the 

 following : 



The body is more or less fusiform, anteriorly obtusely rounded 

 and rather convex, posteriorly tapering, oftenest predominantly li^ht 

 colored; pronotum and elytra have several, abdomen many outstand- 

 ing marginal bristles, otherwise the head and pronotum are naked, 

 shiny, elytra and abdomen are very sparsely covered vjith particular- 

 ly fine, prostrate hair, or the former almost naked; the heaa is 

 short and broad, deeply imbedded in the pronotum, eyes only slight- 

 ly protruding, antennae slender, lightly thickened outwardly. Prono- 

 tum is large, broader than, or as broad as elytra, anteriorly round- 

 edly narrowing, convex, its posterior margin fitting closely to the 

 base of elytra, which oftenest are somewhat longer than pronotum. 

 Abdomen is tapering, with sharp side-ridges; legs rather slender, me- 

 dial tibiae finely spiniferous, all tarsi 5-Jointed, their fourth 

 joint peculiarly small, the three first fore-tarsal joints of the Cy 

 is more or less strongly, in the O occasionally feebly dilated, the 

 first joint of the hina-tarsi is stretched as long as the two follow- 

 ing ^oints together. 



The sixth abdominal free dorsal joint of the o and Q differs in 

 form, but in the same manner in all species; the sex-characters are 

 therefore not species-defining. In the o the said dorsal joint 

 is undivided, with rounded tip, in the p divided by sharp incisions 

 into two br J stle-bearing sidelobes, and a middle-lobe, which again 

 is divided into two narrow tips, almost, as long as the sidelobes. 



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