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 ly red- or brownish-yellow legs, and among these mainly characteristic 

 by entirely yellow maxillary palpi and the in cT first four simple, i. e. 

 not impressed ventral joints. 



Black, dully glistening; thorax with indistinct, abdomen with espe- 

 cially fine and short hair; maxillary palpi clearly and entirely yellow; 

 antennae at middle brownish; legs reddish yellow, femoral tip, the knees 

 and base of tibiae, also the tarsi brownish. 



Thorax all over with coarse and very dense, somewhat rugous puncta- 

 tion; head as broad as elytra, between the eyes slightly impressed and 

 with two longitudinal grooves, separated by a feebly convex interval; 

 antennae fine; pronotum broadest at middle, narrower than elytra, longer 

 than broad, posteriorly more narrowing than anteriorly, flatly convex, 

 most often feebly grooved posteriorly in middle-line; elytra a little 

 longer than pronotum, not entirely smooth; abdomen with rather robust 

 and very dense, the last joints with finer and less dense punctation; 

 its first four free dorsal joints at base with a small carina at middle 

 line; hind tarsi as long as tibiae. L. 5-6 mm. 



In the O the hind-femora rather strongly thickened and on inner side 

 dorsally with long hair; metasternum at middle flatly depressed and 

 with long grayish-yellow heir, the first four ventral joints at middle 

 smooth, not impressed, occasionally somewhat long-haired, the fifth with 

 hollow impression, the impression punctated and with long— ha-ir*d, pos- 

 teriorly sharp sides? (Page 493) posterior margin 



rounded fcuourvad ; the sixth joint at tip with a rounded incision and is 



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