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Black or pitch-black, jlisteninj, rather finely haired; elytra brown, 

 darkly shaded around scutellum; abdominal tip, also posterior margin or 

 the hindmost half of the fifth free dorsal Joint yellowish-red or brown- 

 ish-red; antennae pitch colored, their base, especially the first joint, 

 and the legs reddish-yellow 



The body is slightly depressed; head broad and short, yet a little 

 narrower than pronotum, finely and sparsely punctated, in the <^ slightly 

 depressed and often with a short, fine groove at middle; antennae rather 

 long and robust, feebly thickened distally, all their joints strongly brist- 

 le-haired, more strongly than in the other species of the subgenus; the 

 first Joint robust, especially in the O^ , the third longer than the sec- 

 ond; Oi the midule and next-last (4-10) each following is a little short- 

 er and broader than the preceding, thus the next-last are more distinctly 

 transverse than tne middle ones; distal Joint short, tapering. Pronotum 

 a little narrower than elytra, approximately Ij times as broad as long, 

 posteriorly only feebly narrowing, with slightly rounded sides and a few 

 long, outstanding side-bristles, its dorsum finely and not densely punc- 

 tated, at middle posteriorly most often slightly depressed with a feeble 

 transverse fovea before scutellum, and often finely grooved at middld-line. 

 iSlytra a little longer than pronotum, somewhat more robustly and more aenee- 

 ly punctated than same; abdomen evenly broad, its first three free dorsal 

 Joints finely and not densely punctated, the fourth with isolated, the fifth 

 very simple and fine punctation; the sides robustly bristle-haired. L. 3.E 

 -4 mm. 



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