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the anteuiue, black. Thorax twice as broad as long at the base, 

 basal margin obsoletoly bisinuate on either side, its medial 

 portion transversely truncate ; middle of anterior border slightly 

 sinuate, sides straiglit, feebly bisinuate, anterior and posterior 

 angles acute, surface finely Ijut not closely punctured, impressed 

 on each side close to the hinder angle with a deep fovea ; the 

 disk is ornamented with five black spots placed as follows, one 

 medial, transverse and bilobate larger than the rest, the others 

 arranged in a quadrangular form one near each anterior and 

 [)osterior angle. 8cutellum broader than long, trigonate, its 

 apex broadly rounded and stained with black. Elytra broailer 

 than the thorax, tapering from the base towards the apex, finely 

 but distinctly punctured. l>(idy beneath clothed with coarse 

 fulvous hairs, hinder thighs moderately iucrassate. 



Madost(itliii!< j)irf/is, mihi. 



Anguste oblongus, depressus, ]»allide fulvus, nitidus, ca})itis 

 maculis sex, thoracis maculis decem, scutello, unguiculis, tarsis 

 posticis, tibiis dorso antennisque nigris ; elytris tenuiter punc- 

 tatis, nigris, utrisque maculis (|^uin([ue fulvis ; pleuris piceo- 

 maculatis ; femoribus nigrodineatis, posticis valde incrassatis, 

 subtus spina valida armatis. Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. Coluniliia. 



Head distinctly punctured, tlie punctures remote on the vertex, 

 crowded on either side along the inner orbit of the eye, in tlie 

 medial line is an oblong fovea ; a triangular spot on the extreme 

 vertex, a frontal vitta, a small spot on either side just 

 within the insertion of the antenna, a transverse spot on the 

 clypeus, together with a spot at the base of the labrum, black ; 

 apices of jaws likewise black. Thorax more than twice as broad 

 as long ; basal margin faintly tri-sinuate ; sides rounded and con- 

 verging from base to apex, hinder angles laterally produced, 

 acute, anterior angles slightly produced, sid) acute ; surface 

 finely but remotely punctured, ornamented with ten black spots, 

 placed as follows, one on the middle of the: apical border, four 

 transversely across the middle, and five transversely at the 

 base, of these latter the three inner are attached to the basal 

 margin, and the two lateral ones are free. Elytra broad, parallel, 

 rather broadly rounded at the ape.x ; aVjove <lepressed, rather 

 strongly i)unctured, black, each nearly covered with live large. 

 fulvous patches, arranged as follows; one attached to the middle 

 of the base, within the humeral callus, two obliquely below the 

 base, the inner one obli([uely oblong, attached to the scutellum, 



