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Black, finely haired; forebody with feeble or modulated and some- 

 what silky gloss, abdomen more glistening; elytra often darkly yellow- 

 brown; antennae pitch-black, their first joint, the mouth-parts and legs 

 brownish or reddish yellow. 



Head, pronotum and elytra particularly finely shagreened in surface, 

 which in combination with the fine, rather dense ■ ^ii r hair vestiture 

 gives the forebody a modulated silky gloss. The head is large and broad, 

 with rather large, somewhat protruding eyes, narrower than pronotum, 

 very finely and not densely punctated, at middle often (o^) with a feeble 

 fovea, or slightly depressed; the antennae rather slender, scarcely thick- 

 ened distally, their third joint scarcely shorter than the second, both 

 somewhat elongate, the fourth narrow, half as long as the third, and as 

 well as the fifth and sixth longer than broad, the following and next-last 

 (7-10) as long as broad, distal joint hardly twice as long as the tenth, 

 tapering. Pronotum is considerably narrower than the broad elytra, 1 »/3 

 times as, broad as long, scarcely narrowing posteriorly, with anteriorly 

 very feebly rounded, posteriorly almost straight sides, flatly convex, 

 very finely and densely punctated, most often with a small fovea posteri- 

 orly before scutellum; elytra together broader than long, 1//? times as 

 long as pronotum, very densely and finely punctated. The first three free 

 dorsal joints of abdomen finely and rather densely punctated, the two fol- 

 lowing with sparse or simple punctation. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



In the S' the first joint of the antennae somewhat thickened and to- 

 gether with the three following densely haired on the inner side. The 



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