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which seems to be limited in front by a small obtuse elevation ; 
antennal tubercles well-developed, with an obvious channel 
between them ; the sides, behind the eyes, are coarsely ciliate. 
Thorax rather longer than broad, constricted and depressed in 
front, widest and most convex near the middle, just before the 
base there is a curved transverse impression ; its clothing is 
rather scanty on the disk but forms a sort of fringe along the 
sides. lytra as long as broad, a good deal narrowed towards 
the base, apex truncate; the sutural strie are well marked 
and become deeper near the base, inside each shoulder there 
is a deep elongate impression ; they bear fine decumbent hairs 
and long, erect, slender sete. Hind body as long as the 
wing-cases, gradually narrowed backwards, its three basal 
segments of about equal length, with distinct margins, the 
other two deflexed, its pubescence elongate. Legs elongate ; 
Jemora slender near the base, somewhat clavate near the 
middle: front tébte nearly straight, with dense fulvous pu- 
bescence on the inside towards the extremity ; the intermediate 
slightly arcuate below the middle, densely pubescent near the 
apex, and finely ciliate externally ; the posterior also fringed, 
straight as far as the middle, and, on the inner face, below 
the middle, armed with a conspicuous spiniform process, they 
are a little thickened and curved there. 
Antenne long and stout ; basal joint cylindric, thicker, and, 
on the outside, nearly twice the length of the next one ; joints 
3 to 6 evidently longer than broad, the fourth slightly shorter 
than the contiguous ones; seventh quadrate ; eighth trans- 
verse, of the same width as the preceding one ; ninth a little 
longer than broad; tenth quadrate, but, like the ninth, slightly 
narrowed towards the base, both these joints thicker than the 
eighth ; eleventh large, oblong-oval, obtuse, with a fovea 
underneath ; the last three joints are more or less distinctly 
asperate. 
Underside chestnut-red, with depressed yellow pubescence. 
Head with a basal depression. Metasternum depressed along 
the middle, the sides of the cavity gradually, but considerably, 
raised anteriorly, and, just behind the middle coxe, ending in 
a thick spiniform protuberant process. Abdomen much nar- 
rowed posteriorly, rather flat along the middle, with deep 
sutures, the fifth segment smooth and transversely impressed 
in the middle, sixth conical, deeply depressed in the centre and 
carinate behind. 
g. Length 1, breadth 3 line. 
emale,—Antennex rather shorter, joints 3 to 10 slightly 
reduced as compared with those of the other sex, the eighth 
