(Paje 89) 



The body is broad, oblong and rooust, dorsally somewhat flat, but ven- 

 trally ratner convex and abaomen upwardly curved. The posterior margin 

 of the first three free dorsal abdominal joints on each side v*ith dense 

 yellow hair-tufts; dorsally the body elsewhere with only extremely sparse, 

 short and fine hair vestiture, almost naked. The head is small, not constrict- 

 ed behind; temples and genae not margine ted; eyes small; antennae slender 

 and rather lon^; mandibles small; second ^oint of maxillary palpi a little 

 longer and more robust than the third, the fourth fine, short and subuli- 

 form; the tongue short and very broad, feebly emarginated at tip; first 

 joint of labial palpi is unusually thick and as long as the two other joints 

 together; mentum broadly and deeply emarginated, its corners strongly pro- 

 nounced. 



Pronotum is very broad vith upwardly turned sides and flatly incurved 

 anterior margin, posterior margin at each side strongly and broadly in-*- 

 curvea its middle thereby distinctly rounded and the hind corners rect- 

 or obtuse-angularly prominent. The elytra together are broader than long 

 and posteriorly not entirely covering the broad epimera of the mesothoraxj 

 their posterior margin rather even, and inside the outer corners only very 

 feebly Incurved. Abdomen is somewhat broadened posteriorly, ventral side 

 convex, dorsal side concave with thick side-margins; when in motion as well 

 as at rest it curves strongly upward. Its first turtic free dorsal joints 

 are at base transversally grooved, the sixth broadly inourvrd with pro«- 

 -inent, halr-tofted corners; aLdominal tip is strongly contracted and is 

 only indistinctly visible. The legs are long and robust, nearest the coxae 



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