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 always distinctive, and the correct determination therefore often 

 difficult. 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum shiny; elytra and abdomen 

 finely haired; elytra brownish-red, rarely as light as in ochripennis ; 

 maxillary palpi, fore-tibiae, and tarsi as a rule reddish-brown. 



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The body is rather elongate, and of even breadth, of more even 

 breadth than that of ochripennis , and form of the head less trans- 

 verse, sculpture, and position of the bristle-bearing punctures of 

 head and pronotum, mainly the same as of this, however the hindmost, 

 large, bristle-bearing puncture of forehead, is frequently double, 

 and the smaller bristle-bearing puncture at posterior margin of the 

 eye often particularly fine, rarely double; temples are distinctly 

 longer than eyes, especially in the ^ , antennae rather robust, some- 

 what shorter and more robust than in ochripennis , their next-last 

 five joints rather strongly transverse. Pronotum is posteriorly of- 

 tenest distinctly impressed on sides, and the form therefore less 

 plumply or broadly convex than that of ochripennis, the hindmost 

 punctures in the punctata row on the side-planes often indistinct. 

 Elytra is not longer than pronotum, a little shorter, and together 

 proportionately narrower than in ochripennis . punctation same as in 

 this. Abdomen rather elongated, and of more even breadth than of the 

 preceding species, a little more densely and sharply punctate. L. 9- 

 11 mm. 



In the o the head is considerably broader and larger than inO t 



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