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II, 896; Thorns. Sicand. Col. Ill, 142; liuls. et Bey Brevip. 187£, 232; 

 ianglb. Kaf. :>.'. II, 673). 



A small, narrov. and fine species, mainly identified by these charac- 

 ters and by the sculpture of the thorax. 



7. rownish-red or brownish-yellow with pitch-colored head, thorax and 

 abdomen, somewhat glistening; elytra yellow, as well as abdomen v.ith 

 sparse, but rather long hair vestiture; abdominal base and tip often 

 trownish; antennae toward tip pitchy t/rov.nish, the rest togetner with 

 mouth and legs yellow. 



Head and pronotum with distinctly shagreened surface, head as broad 

 as pronotum, with scattered and proportionately coarse, but not deep 

 punctation, eyes large, rather strongly convex, temples very short, 

 dibles far protruding, antennae rather slender, at middle thin, their 

 first joint longest, rather robust, the third finer and shorter than 

 the second, the fourth, fifth and sixth small, roundish, the following 

 much more robust, and together forming a f ive- jointed, long club, in 

 which the eight joint is smallest. Ironotum is narrower than elytra, 1. 

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

 sides, flatly convex, punctated like the head, but the punctures at mid- 

 dle arranged in two rather regular rows, separated by an impunctated, 

 rather broad interval, v.hich posteriorly is more convex than anteriorly 

 and at middle-line smooth. The elytra are almost l£ times as long as 

 pronotum, with rather coarse, but not deep row-punctation, posteriorly 

 with scattered punctation; abdomen with very fine, simple punctation, the 

 surface very finely shagreened. L. 2.5 mm. 



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