(Pa^'e 174) 

 and feebly or moderately ^listenin^-; identified especially by entirely 

 dark or black antennae, and by the broadly concavous depressed pronotum 

 of the <?" and other sex-characters. 



Black, very finely haired; forebody with modulated or feeble shine, 

 abdomen rather glistening; elytra black, sometimes brownish black; an- 

 tennae black or pitch-black, occasionally pitch-brownish at base; legs 

 brownish yellow with somewhat darker femora. 



The surface of head, pronotum and elytra particularly finely sha- 

 ^reened and therefore with dull shine; the head a little narrower than 

 pronotum, especially finely and rather densely punctated, in the <5^ more 

 or less flatly depressed at middle with a short medial groove; the anten- 

 nae fully as long as head and pronotum together, rather slender, feebly 

 thickened distally, their third joint about as long as the second, the 

 fourth as long as broad and scarcely broader than the tip of the third 

 Joint, but smaller than the fifth, this and the following (5-10) feeb- 

 ly increasingly transverse, the next-last about 1^ times as broad as long; 

 distal joint bhort. Pronotum distinctly narrower than elytra, hardly ik 

 times as broad as long, with anteriorly feebly rounded, posteriorly more 

 straight sides, its dorsal side finely and very densely punctated, in the 

 ^ flatly convex with a small transverse fovea before scutellum, and a 

 more or less distinct, shorter or longer groove in medial line, in the o 

 conspicuously broadly and concevously impressed at middle. Elytra //3 

 longer than pronotum, punctatea aoout like same. The first three free 

 dorsal joints of abdomen with rathei isolated and fine punctatlon, the 



