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tooth ; pronotum somewhat uneven, black, with four greyish spots, 
which are due to a grey velvety pilosity ; the two smaller of these 
touch the anterior, the two larger the posterior margin, and appear 
as though forming parts of two vittee, each of which is interrupted in 
the middle ; prosternum produced between the procoxz and there 
deeply notched, pitchy red, and clothed with a grey pilosity. Scu- 
tellum rounded, black, and glabrous. Elytra black, broad at the 
base, gradually tapering to the apex, where they are slightly divari- 
cate, truncate, and furnished with a small obtuse and obscure tooth 
in the middle as well as at each angle of the truncature: each elytron 
has three carinz ; the first is prominent, originates near the base, and 
curves towards the suture but without reaching it, terminating in the 
apical area; the second originates on the disk considerably below the 
humeral angle, and running parallel with the first, unites therewith 
in the apical area; the third is nearly obsolete; it is situate on the 
apical half of the elytron, between the second carina and the costal 
margin; the costal margin is pitchy red, and clothed with a grey pu- 
bescence: the wings are fuliginous, slightly longer than the elytra, 
and unfolded: the legs are rather long; the metatibie slightly in- 
curved, and furnished with two apical spimes: the under surface of 
the thoracic and abdominal segments is of a pitchy red colour, clothed 
with a sparse grey pubescence ; the legs are of a similar colour, but 
the pubescence is scarcely observable. 
Fem.—Head somewhat cordate, black, velvety, with a large ful- 
vous spot occupying the face and extending to the epicranium be- 
tween the eyes, but not reaching the anterior margin of the pro- 
thorax ; a deep longitudinal epicranial sulcus extends forwards to 
between the bases of the antennze: eyes arcuate, reniform, pitchy 
black : antennee more than half the length of the body, 11-jointed ; 
the first joint rather short, somewhat obconical; the second very 
short ; the third the longest, but still not disproportionately so, di- 
lated at the apex ; the fourth and fifth of the same form, but shorter ; 
the remainder, to the eleventh, slender at the base, but dilated and 
somewhat cupshaped at the apex, receiving into the cup the base of 
the next succeeding joint, and being produced into a strong obtuse 
lobe, tooth, or serrature on one side; this is very conspicuous, and 
gives the antenna a subserrated appearance ; on the opposite side is a 
very slight, scarcely perceptible indication of a like lobe ; the eleventh 
joint is sesquialterous. Prothorax nearly equal in length and breadth, 
the anterior narrower than the posterior margin, the lateral margins 
uneven and slightly lobed in the middle; pronotum uneven, with a 
slightly impressed anterior and posterior submarginal transverse sul- 
cus, velvety black, with two broad irregular longitudinal vitte of a 
bright fulvous orange colour ; prosternum produced between the pro- 
coxze, and the process notched. Scutellum short, rounded, black, 
shining. Elytra at the base much wider than the prothorax, gra- 
dually narrowing to the apex, where they are slightly dehiscent, trun- 
cated, and the truncature produced in the middle into an obtuse, 
scarcely perceptible tooth ; each elytron has three carine ; the first is 
prominent, originating near the base, and curves very gradually to- 
