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Father evenly broad, slightly depressed, closely allied to precedin;^ 

 species^ and the ^J'with like characters, but identified inter alia by en- 

 tirely dull head and pronotum, and the sparse punctation of the fourth 

 and fifth free dorsal joints of abdomen. 



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Black, very finely haired; head and pronotum entirely dull; elytra 

 with some jloss, abdomen rather glistening; elj'tra brown or blackish- 

 brown; tip of abdomen and posterior margin of its foremost joints some- 

 times orownish-red; antennae pitch-black or rust-red, their base, the 

 mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow. 



The surface of head and pronotum extremely finely shagreened and there- 

 fore dull; the head broad, nearly as broad as pronotum, flat, extremely 

 finely or indistinctly punctated, in the <5 broadly impressed at middle; 

 antennae rather robust, a little shorter than in angustula , their third 

 joint a little longer than the second, the fourth feebly transverse, tho 

 following (5-lC) increasingly transverse, so that the next-last become 

 twice as broad as long; distal joint as long as the two preceding joints 

 together. Pronotum anteriorly a little narrower then elytra, about as 

 long as broad, witli anteriorly feebly rounded sides and slightly narrow- 

 ing posteriorly, feebly convex, impunctate, middle-line in t\i3 ^ feebly, 

 in the ^'distinctly longitudinally grooved; elytr-i '/^ longer than prono- 

 tum, ,very densely and finely punctated, surface esirecially finely shagreen- 

 ed. Tue first three free dorsal joints of abdomen finely and rather dense- 

 ly puagtaied,. the fourth v.ith scattered, the fifth with sparse or simple 



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