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downwards to the transverse ridge; antenne filiform, 
the fourth joint slightly longer than either the third or 
fifth. Thorax more than twice as broad as long; sides 
rounded, converging from the base towards the apex, the 
anterior angle produced, thickened, its apex obtuse, the 
hinder angle mucronate; disk nitidous, impunctate, the 
lateral margin narrowly incrassate; at some little distance 
within the latter is a fine faint longitudinal excavation. 
Scutellum piceo-violaceous. Elytra oblong, broader 
than the thorax, not dilated posteriorly, outer limb 
moderately dilated, reflexed, fringed behind the middle 
with a single row of long hairs. Hinder tibia armed 
before its apex with a distinct tooth, claw only slightly 
thickened. 
Asphera inclusa. 
Elongato-ovata, convexa, nigra, nitida, capite tho- 
raceque albidis, encarpis, ore antennisque nigris; hoc 
levi, lateribus rectis, a basi apicem versus convergenti- 
bus, angulis anticis valde antrorsum productis, subacutis ; 
elytris tenuiter punctatis, albido-fulvis, nitidissimis, 
utrisque plaga subquadrata baseos maculam subrotun- 
datam includente, altera vix pone medium transverso- 
quadrata, postice leviter concava, tertiaque subapical, 
trigonata, nigro-violaceis. Long. 33 lin. 
Hab. Venezuela. 
Head trigonate; vertex smooth, impunctate, front 
punctured on either side near the eye; encarpe nigro- 
piceous, subquadrate, contiguous ; clypeus with a trans- 
verse, obsoletely-angled ridge, from the middle of which 
the ill-defined cara runs upwards to the encarpe; 
lower edge of the clypeus, together with the mouth 
black; antenne filiform, the third, fourth, and fifth 
joints equal in length, each about twice the length of 
the second; eyes distinctly sinuate within. Thorax 
nearly twice as broad as long at the base; sides straight, 
obliquely converging from the base towards the apex; 
anterior angles strongly produced anteriorly, thickened, 
subacute; disk shining, impunctate; sides narrowly 
margined. Scutellum trigonate. Hlytra rather broader 
than the thorax, oblong-ovate, not dilated posteriorly, 
very finely punctured, yellowish white, with a very faint 
pinkish tinge: each elytron with three large nigro- 
violaceous patches; the first, placed rather nearer the 
TRANS. ENT. soc. 1881.—PART I, (APRIL.) ~~ ui 
