(Paie 136) 



Feebly fusiform; black, jlisteninj, rather finely haired; the elytra 

 sometimes brownish black; legs brownish-black or darkly brownish-yellow 

 with lighter knee and tarsi. 



The head is narrower than pronotum, with fine, and rather isolated 

 granulate punctation; antennae a little longer than head and pronotum 

 together, very feebly thickened distally, bristle-haired, their first 

 joint rather robust, the third joint shorter than the second, the fourth 

 small and as long as broad, the fifth feebly, the following five joints 

 distinctly transverse, about li times as broad as long, each of these 

 of e^ual length, distal joint as long as the next-last two joints togeth- 

 er, oblong tapering. Pronotum somewhat narrower than elytra, scarcely 

 1^ times as broad as long, feebly narrowing anteriorly, with slightly 

 rounded, distinctly bristle-haired sides, rather convex, with rather 

 dense and fine granulate punctation, middle-line often feebly grooved pos- 

 teriorly; elytra ''/j> longer than pronotum, somewhat more distinctly ana 

 densely punctated than this; abdomen tapering, its first three free dor- 

 sal joints with fine and rather isolated punctation, the following sparse- 

 ly punctated, sides with numerous bristles. Middle and hind tibiae each 



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 with two outstanding bristles, of v.hich the nethermost - on middle tibiae 

 placed at middle, on hind tibiae Deneath middle - is longest and most 

 robust. L. :i mm. 



In the ^ the next-last ventral joint of abdomen rounded off at tip, 

 in the p distinctly incurved. 



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