(Pa^-e 131) 

 dorsal joints of abdomen, more closely related to subgenus Bessobla spe- 

 cies. 



Black, finely haired, rather glistening; the elytra black or black- 

 ish-brown; legs brov.nish-yellow ; basal joint of the antennae sometimes 

 brownish. 



The head is in circumference nearly as large as pronotum, hardly nar- 

 rower than this, as long as broad, with rather large, somewhat protruding 

 eyes, finely and rather densely punctated, in the S'with a deep, in the 

 ^ with a feeble longitudinal groove in middle-line; antennae a little longer 

 than head and pronotum together, feebly thickened distally, their first 

 joint proportionately thick, especially in the ^ , the third consider- 

 ably shorter than the second, the fourth small, about as long as broad, 

 the following from the fifth to the ninth increasingly transverse the 

 latter twice as broad as long, the tenth distinctly longer than the ninth; 

 distal Joint short with obtuse tip. Pronotum much narrower than elytra, 

 a little broader than long, feebly narrowing posteriorly, with anterior- 

 ly slightly rounded sides bearing single bristles, flatly convex, with 

 rather fine and dense granulate punctation, in the o most often with a 

 deep and rather broad longitudinal impression on middle, in the p with 

 a sugjestion ot, or a feeble longitudinal groove in middle-line posterior- 

 ly; elytra li times as long as pronotum, finely and rather densely punc- 



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 tated and the surface as well as that of head and pronotum particularly 

 finely shagreened; abdomen evenly broad, with stronger shine than the fore- 



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