(Pa^'e 156) 

 separated especially by: that the posterior margin of elytra inside the 

 outer corners is not incurved, that the antennae are more robust and their 

 middle and next-last Joints are much more stron^jly transverse, that pro- 

 notum is much more densely punctated, and that the sex-characters of O^ 

 are differently formed. 



Black or pitch-black, somewhat modulated gloss, finely haired; pro- 

 notum most often pitch-brown or reddish-brown; elytra orov^nish yellow, 

 often darkly shaded around scutellum and at the outer hind corners; ab- 

 dominal tip and base most often pitch-brownish; antennae brownish yellow, 

 their base, mouth-parts and le-^s light yellow. 



The head broad, narrower than pronotum, very finely or indistinctly 

 punctated and feebly glistening; antennae rather short and robust, their 

 second and third joints of same lenght, the fourth broader than long, the 

 fifth and the following untill the tenth very strongly transverse, so that 

 the next-last are about tnree times as broad as long, distal joint fully 

 as long as the two preceding joints together. Pronotum short, twice as 

 broad as long, however somewhat narrower than elytra, with rounded sides 

 and feebly convex dorsum, finely and very densely punctated, the surface 

 especially finely shagreened and due thereto like the head with feeble 

 gloss, at middle-line sometimes slightly grooved; elytra more flat than 

 in the preceding species, ''/^ longer than pronotum and somewhat more distinct- 

 ly punctated than this; th« first three free dorsal Joints of abdomen with 

 fine and not. dense, the following two with very simple punctution. L. 2- 

 2.5 mm. 



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