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Fusiform; black or brownish black, glistening, finely and sparsely haired; 

 head black; pronotum often brown with lighter sides; elytra darkly brownish 

 or chestnut brown, more rarely yellowish-brown; tip of abdomen, sometimes 

 also its foremost joints brownish; antennae either entirely yellowish-red 

 or brownish toward the tip; mouth-parts and legs reddish yellow. 



The head is rounded, much narrower than pronotum, more or less finely, 

 isolated and flatly punctated; antennae rather slender, slightly thicken- 

 ed distally, short bristle-haired, their first joint 1^ times as thick as 

 the second, this a little more robust than the third, but hardly longer, 

 the fourth joint a little longer than broad, the middle ones as long as 

 broad, the next-last either feebly transverse (^ ) or as long as broad (o; , 

 distal joint as long as the two preceding joints together. Pronotum across 

 the middle as broad as, or even broader than the elytra, amply 1^ times as 

 broad as long, narrowing anteriorly and posteriorly, with strongly rounded 



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 sides and with few fine side-bristles, fully convex, punctation rather fine 

 and isolated, most often with a feeble transverse fovea posteriorly before 

 the scutellum, occasionally also with a slight sugjestion of a groove in 

 middle-line. Blytra only a little longor than pronotum, somewhat more densa- 

 ly and distinctly punctated than this, their posterior margin inside the 

 outer corners slightly undate. Abdomen tapering, Its first three free dorsal 

 joints with fine and rather dense, sometimes isolated punctation, the fol- 

 lowing with very scattered punctation, the tides bristle-haired; middle and 

 hind tibiae with a small, very short, often indistinct bristle at ttlddle. 

 L. 2.3-3 mm. 



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