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tion of the club which is black. The legs are fulvous, 

 with the trochanters, the apical third of the femora and 

 the basal and apical fourth of the tibiae black; the tarsi 

 are dark pitchy, the basal half of the clawjoint fulvous. 



Head strongly produced in front of the eyes, slightly 

 raised along the middle and here sparingly covered with 

 large ovate punctures; the punctuation between the raised 

 portion and the eyes very dense, on the narrowed front 

 portion very minute. 



Prothorax slightly broader at the base than long, slightly 

 narrowing in faintly curved lines towards the front margin ; 

 the anterior angles slightly prominent, rounded ; the base 

 bisinuate, the lateral angles acute, the middle lobe rounded ; 

 the upper surface somewhat uneven, owing to some punc- 

 tate impressions, very irregularly covered with large ovate 

 punctures, leaving some spaces free of them. The scutellum 

 is transverse, glossy and impunctate. 



Elytra parallel-sided, rounded at the apices, dehiscent 

 at the suture, the posterior margin faintly sinuated, shal- 

 lowly notched between the suture and the 3i''l interspace; 

 each elytron with ten rows of small punctures which be- 

 come larger towards the base and sides ; the interspaces 

 impunctate, the 1st, gi-a, 5th, 7th and 9^^ more or less 

 distinctly raised towards the apex, the two latter from 

 one third behind the base ; the 71'^ is the most distinct one, 

 and the Si^ and d^^ extend to the apical margin. 



Under surface : the triangular middle-portion of the head 

 rather remotely covered with very distinct punctures, the 

 lateral portions are very densely punctured ; the sterna 

 show some large punctures laterally and the elytral epipleurae 

 some minute punctures along the inner margin of the 

 basal fourth. Legs impunctate; anterior tibiae slightly 

 curved, their apical half fringed with fulvous hairs at the 

 inner margin; the posterior tibiae densely fringed at the 

 underside of their apical fourth with fulvous hairs which 

 increase in length towards the tip of the tibia. Ventral 

 segments with a minute hair-bearing puncture on both 

 sides of the middle; the basal segment in the middle with 



Notes from the Ijeyden Museum, Vol. XXXV. 



