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Ins. D. II, 821; Thorns. Skend. Col. Ill, 118; Schi^dte Nat. Tldsskr. 

 1866, 145; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1879, 122; Sanglb. Kaf. M. II, 615). 



About of size with f urcatus , easily separated from this especially 



by the obtuse angular, not promonent fore-corners of pronotum, and its 



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more robust punctation, also by the sex-characters of the O . 



Black, finely haired, a little glistening; elytra red or yellowish- 

 red, with a more or less extensive black mutual-spot at base and at the 

 suture; abdominal tip often reddish; antennae -brownish-black; legs-brown- 

 ish-red with darker femora and lighter tarsi. 



The head (Fig. 154) is across the eyes a little narrower than prono- 

 tum, the surface very densely and finely shagreened, sides of forehead 



in the o with scattered punctation, in the Onot punctated, anterior 



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 corners of forehead in the Q obtuse, boss-formed, in the O developed in- 

 to rather short, forwardly directed, tapering horns, margins of the 

 clypeus not or hardly margined and not upturned, antennae rather slen- 

 der; pronotum about as broad a6 elytra, fully as broad as long, with 

 obtuse angular fore-corners, and posteriorly rounded narrowing, with 

 almost entirely rounded-off hind corners, with robust and very dense 

 punctation, the surface finely shagreened, in middle-line sharply groov- 



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ed, in the O anteriorly armed with a midplaced, forwardly directed, 

 narrow, at tip haired, at middle often grooved, long horn. Elytra are 

 longer than pronotum, with rather dense and robust, posteriorly finer 

 punctation; abdomen with scattered punctation. Hind tibiae at tip with 

 a single, rather long, projecting spine. L. 5.5-7 mm. 



In the O the posterior margin of ventral abdomial seventh joint at 

 middle angularly incurvata. 



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