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 antennae and mouth-parts black; legs reddish or brownish yellov., most 

 often with pitch-brown femora. 



The body (Fig. 165) is rather broad; the head in the <? narrower, 

 in the £V ordinarily a little broader than pronotum and with more plump 

 temples, in both finely punctated, and posteriorly on sides longitudi- 

 nal-rugose, the vertex with short middle-groove, anteriorly between the 

 bosses flatly impressed, very finely and feebly shagreened, in the £ 

 dully shining, sides of forehead in the a inside the eye with a carina- 

 formed margin, eyes rather small, antennae short, rather robustly thick- 

 ened distally, their next-last joints rather strongly transverse; pro- 

 notum, especially in the q , narrower than elytra, about twice as broad 

 as long, especially in the d , posteriorly hardly narrowing, with slight- 

 ly rounded sides and rounded off hind-corners, flatly convex, dense and 

 rather fine longitudinal-rugose- and longitudinal-aciculated punctation, 

 sides with rather deep and broaa impression and with very finely margin- 

 ed side-edges, at middle with three longitudinal grooves, of which the 



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 middle groove is deepest, broadest anteriorly, side-grooves anteriorly 

 slightly outcurved; elytra longer than pronotum, with very dense and 

 rather fine longitudinal-rugose- and longitudinal-aciculated-punc tati- 

 on; abdomen very finely shagreened, and particularly finely, rather den- 

 sely punctated, finely haired. L. 3.5-1.5 mm. 



In the O the sixth ventral abdominal joint (Fig. 166) posteriorly 

 with a rather deep, semicircular, smooth impression with two small, 



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