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longitudinally costate, the costa at the shoulders short and running 
obliquely to the lateral margin, femora with a small tooth. 
Antsianaka and Fenerive. 
To be separated from any ofits allies by the costate interstices of 
the elytra in connection with the dark fulvous colour. 
Syagrus pallidipennis Jacoby (Novit. Coleopt. 1895, p. 6). 
Fulvous, the terminal joints of the antennæ and the legs more or 
less black, thorax with a few fine punctures, elytra pale fulvous or 
testaceous, finely punctate-striate, the punctures deeper below the base, 
femora with a small tooth. 
Length : 2-2 3/4 lines. 
Head with a few fine punctures, dark fulvous, the clypeus not 
separated from the face, more closely punctured, eyes distinctly 
notched, surrounded by a narrow sulcus, mandibles black, antennæ 
extending to half the length of the elytra, filiform, black, the lower 
three joints fulvous, third joint double the length of the second, the 
latter half the length of the basal joint, last joint rather elongately 
thickened; thorax about one half broader than long, the sides 
straight, narrowed in front, the disc with a band of fine punctures 
near the base which are in some specimens scarcely perceptible, 
dark fulvous or light piceous, scutellum fulvous or piceous; elytra 
wider at the base than the thorax, convex, subcylindrical, not 
depressed below the base, pale fulvous or testaceous, with nine or 
ten rows of widely placed punctures which are much stronger 
below the base than at the posterior portion where they are very 
fine, the interstices are smooth and flat; underside and legs piceous 
or black, the femora with a small tooth, claws bifid, prosternum 
with a few strong punctures. 
Antsianaka. 
The pale colour of the elytra and the very sparingly punctured 
thorax separates this species from its rather numerous allies, there 
are four specimens before me, which all agree with each other. 

