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(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 323; Jen. Spec. Staph. &C; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 237; Sharp Rev. Brit. Hoir. 151; Muls et Fey Brevip. 1875, 60; GJan^lb, 

 Kaf. M. II, 206. - punctiventris Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 2S2). 



A narrow, evenly broad and rather flat species v-ith immarginate temp- 

 les and ^enae, recognized furthermoj-e by the color, the four transversal - 

 ly grooved dorsal joints of abdomen and its sharp punctation, also by the 

 sex-characters of the ^ . 



Black, dull or dully glistening, finely haired; antennae dark with 

 brownish-yellow base; legs pitch-black or pitch-brown v.ith brownish-yel- 

 low knees and tarsi. 



Head and pronotum extremely densely and finely shagreened in surface 

 and entirely dull. The head is proportionately large, as broad e.z pro- 



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 notum, with slightly rounded sides, not protruding eyes, rather flatly 

 and finely, densely and not deeply punctated, in the o slightly impressed 

 at middle; antennae as long as head and pronotum together, distinctly 

 thickened distally, their third joint finer and a little shorter than the 

 second, the fourth about as long as broad, the following (5-10) smoothly 

 increasingly transverse distally, so that the next-last become about twice 

 as broad as long; distal joint is short, tapering. Pronotum anteriorly 

 nearly as broad as elytra, scarcely broader than long, feebly narrowing 

 posteriorly, with anteriorly slightly rounded sides, very flatly convex. 

 Indistinctly punctated, in the jg with a feeble, in the ^with a stronger, 

 broad longitudinal impression at middle; the elytra a little longer than 

 pronotum, with dense and rather robust scabrous punctation, somewhat jlis- 



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