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(lium thoracis hand excedinites, articulo 3:o sequeiite duplo Ion 

 giore. Thorax basi longitudine media vix dimidio latior, ante 

 medium leviter rotundato-uinpliatus, versus basin vix sinuatim 

 iingustatus, postice hite emarginatus, angulis elevatis, subrectis; 

 aiitice subtruncatus, angulis acuniiuato-productis; nndique cari- 

 nuto-niarginatus, supra subdepressus, hievis, versus latera modo 

 parce et obsolete punctatus, intra aiigulos baseos utrimque ira- 

 pressus, antice medio tenuiter caualiculatus, tbveolis prretcrea 

 ((uatuor in medio disci transversim seriatis, insculptus, interiori- 

 l)us rotundis, exterioribus oblongis. Scutellum breviter triangu- 

 lare, ruguloso-punctatum. Elytra brevissime ovalia, antice, cum 

 angulis humeralibus, subspinoso productis, basi thoracis nonnihil 

 latiora, latitudine parum longiora, apice nonnihil prominente 

 conjunctim subrotundata, supra longe ultra medium subdeplanata, 

 postice fortiter declivia, lateribus valde inflexa, dorso interne 

 tenuiter punctato-striata, striis postice profundioribus, vix punc- 

 tatis, intcrstitiis antice planis, laevigatis, postice convexis, tuber 

 culatis; versus latera irrcgulariter striata et tuberculatu, carinulis 

 4 vel 5, e tuberculis seriatis compositis, distinctioribus. Thorax 

 subtus valde convexus, prosterno compresso, medio bicarinato, 

 carinis alte elevatis, postice dilatatis, sulcum angustum et pro- 

 fundum includentibus, lobo intercoxali acuminatim producto. 

 Abdomen medio depressum, segmento ultimo apice ruguloso- 

 punctato. Pedes elongati, tibiis posticis vix arcuatis, glabris. 



Go no pus costatus: breviter subovatus, niger, nitidus, glaber; 

 thorace transvcrso, ante medium insigniter rotundato-arapliato, 

 supra sublfievi, foveolis octo insculpto; elytris conjunctim sub 

 rotundatis, dorso sulcatis, in sulcis punctatis, intcrstitiis costatis, 

 Ijevibus, versus latera seriato-grauulatis; prosterno late sulcato, 

 postice declivi. Long. 22, lat. 15i millim. 



Caput depressum, parcius punctatura, linea transversa, ar- 

 cuata, inter antennas, obsoleta. Thorax basi apice duplo atque 

 longitudine diraidio latior, ante medium insigniter rotundato- 

 arapliatus, juxta basin utrimque subsinuatus, postice late emar- 

 ginatus, antice medio subtruncatus, angulis acute prominulis; 

 undique marginatus, marginibus laterum reflexo-carinatis, po- 

 stico medio antrorsum angulato; supra depressus, sublaevis, 

 foveis in disco 5, semicirculariter dispositis, media sulciformi, 

 canaliculam tenuem includente, tiibusque intra marginem baseos 

 distantibus, insculptus. Scutellum transversum, apice subrotun- 

 datura, rugulosura. Elytra conjunctim subrotundata, basi, tu- 

 berculo huraerali excepto, basi thoracis latitudine itqualia, medio 

 vero thorace duplo latiora, supra depressa, postice admodum 

 declivia, apice tamen nonnihil prominulo; dorso regulariter, 

 late sulcata et in sulcis seriato-punctata, intcrstitiis costatis, 

 laeviusculis, exterioribus tribus vel quatuor crebre seriato-granu- 

 latis. Corpus subtus modice convexum, indistincte sculpturatum. 



