BY L. BENICK. 456 



Yellowish-reddish head, a stripe near the eyes, the three 

 ast abdominal segments and a large spot on elytra black ; 

 filiining, only the anterio}- parts of head and abdomen, 

 especially the sides of its last segments and the base of elytra 

 With distinct whitish hairs ; body otherwise thinly hairy, 

 strongly and roughly punctured. 



Head fairly broad, much broader than prothorax and 

 hardly more narrow than elytra, slightly impressed, with two 

 sharp but not very deeply impressed eye furrows, middle part 

 forwards flat, backwards elevated in shape of a stripe-like 

 ridge; punctures fine, deeply impressed and fairly dense, 

 liiedian keel smooth ; anterior parts of head light-yellow, 

 densely covered with long white hairs, middle of frons brown, 

 collarparts yellowish. Antennae long and slender, of the 

 two incrassate basal joints the •2nd one is shorter, 3rd joint 

 very slender, about three times and a half as long as the 2nd, 

 4th and 5th both slightly more than half as long as the 3rd, 

 following joints gradually becoming shorter, the three apical 

 joints slightly infuscate ; [)alpi slender, apical joint clnb- 

 sl^aped antl curved outwards at the tip. 



Trothorax nari-ow, roughly one-fifth longer than broad, 

 laterally dilated, widest behind the middle, constricted 

 lia'-kwards. the dorsal parts convex, strongly and densely, 

 but not rugosely punctured. 



l^j'ytra sfitiare, humeral angles distinctly prominent, sides 

 [)arallel, at the tips broadly emarginate, convex, along the 

 suture slightly impressed, slightly stronger punctured than the 

 ]>rotho]-a.K, the punctures on the disc sometimes confluent. 

 The laige macula of the disc leaves forwards a broad, 

 laterally, backwards and along the suture, a narrow surface ; 

 at the suture the yellow extends slightly forwards and 

 backwards. 



Abdomen of the same width as prothorax. tapering back- 

 wards: all segments except the first and fifth are provided 

 ". itii a distinct marginal fold; every segment fairly strongly 

 constricted, finer punctured than the prothorax, the punctures 

 wider ajnirt from each other, and finer and not so deep 

 towards the apex, nearl}^ disappearing on the last segment; 

 the {(ostetior margin of the fifth segment provided with a 

 fold, the posterior margin of the seventh segment with a 

 dorsal emargination in which a fine comb of very densely- 

 placed long teeth can be seen under the microscope. 



