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its base, and the maiuliblcs, except before the apex, black. 

 The face i.s flat, and closely punctured ; the basal part of 

 the clypeus projects sligiitlv' and roundl\^ ; its apex is 

 obliquel\- depressed; the front and vertex closely punc- 

 tured; the former with a broad longitudinal furrow. 

 Thorax black ; a broad band on the pronotum, the 

 teguhe, a mark on the base of the parapsidal furrows, the 

 apical half of the scutellum — the mark narrowed in the 

 middle at the base and apex — , the scutellar keels, 

 post-scutellum, the space at their sides, a large mark 

 on the apex of the median segment, narrow at the 

 base, becoming gradualh' wider towards the apex, which 

 is obliquely narrowed, the lower part of the proplcunx, 

 the tubercles, a perpendicular mark on the base of 

 the mesopleura;, narrow above, becoming wider below, 

 an irregular mark under the hind wing, a larger, more 

 irregular, mark on the lower side near the apex, incised 

 in the middle below, and a large mark on the mesosternum, 

 divided in two b}^ the furrow and narrowed at the base, 

 lemon-yellow. ]\Iesonotum opaque, closeh^ punctured ; 

 the parapsidal furrows reaching to the middle ; the scu- 

 tellum somewhat more strongly, but not so closely, punc- 

 tured ; the furrow at its base smooth and shining. The 

 base of the median segment finely and closely punctured 

 behind the only transverse keel ; the rest of it much 

 more strongly punctured and striated at the base. Pleurae 

 closely punctured ; the middle of the propleurai 

 strongly irregularly striated. The mesosternum closely 

 punctured ; its furrow narrow, crenulated. The four 

 front legs are pale fulvous, yellowish at the base, 

 the coxai black at the base ; the hinder legs are of a 

 darker fulvous ; the coxas and tarsi yellower ; the cox^ 

 largely black on the inner and outer side, the former with 

 the black mark at the base, the latter with it at the apex ; 



