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occiput; epistoma narrow between the antennal cavities, surface 
longitudinally concave, and with a strong, transverse carina near 
the anterior margin. Pronotum moderately convex, about two and 
one-half times as wide as long at middle, distinctly narrower in front 
than behind, widest at the base; sides obliquely attenuate from base 
to anterior angles; anterior margin nearly truncate; base trans- 
versely truncate to middle of elytron, then turning obliquely back- 
ward to the scutellum, in front of which it is arcuately emarginate; 
posterior angles nearly rectangular; surface broadly depressed at the 
sides, the depression extending obliquely from the anterior angles to 
the base at middle of the elytron, then transversely along the base, 
causing the anterior median part of the disk to be regularly convex; 
there is a distinct, short, straight carina on each side in the depressed 
area, which does not reach the base nor anterior margin, finely and 
sparsely punctate on the disk with large, round, shallow punctures 
in the depressed areas, sparsely clothed with rather long, recum- 
bent, cinereous hairs; intervals finely and densely granulated. Scu- 
tellum finely granulated, broadly triangular, anterior margin round- 
ed. Elytra slightly narrower than the pronotum at base; humeral 
angles obtusely angulated; sides nearly parallel to the middle (feebly 
sinuate at the basal fourth), then obliquely attenuate to the tips, 
which are separately rounded, with the lateral margins entire; 
humeri moderately prominent. Each elytron with a broad, rather 
deep depression at the base, and a shallow one behind the humerus 
between the lateral carina and the lateral margin, and with a distinct 
lateral carina extending from the humeral angle to near the apex; 
with four fine lines of dark-brown hairs, extending from the base to 
near the apex, one along the suture, two on the disk, and the fourth 
along the lateral carina; the basal third nearly glabrous, with a few 
cinereous and fulvous hairs intermixed; just behind the middle there 
is a narrow fascia of rather long, cinereous hairs (with a few yellow- 
ish ones intermixed), and with a small spot of cinereous pubescence 
between the third and fourth longitudinal lines of brownish hairs, 
which is connected posteriorly to the median fascia; behind this 
fascia is an equally wide transverse glabrous space, and at the apical 
fourth a triangular spot of cimereous pubescence, which extends to 
the lateral carma; apex with a few short, recumbent, cinereous 
hairs; surface finely and rather densely punctured in the pubescent 
spaces, with a series of stelliform punctures on each side of the lon- 
gitudinal lines of hairs; intervals smooth. Abdomen beneath mod- 
erately convex, sparsely punctate, the punctures large, shallow, and 
open on the one side, and from each puncture arises a rather 
long, recumbent, cinereous hair; intervals finely and densely granu- 
lated; last segment narrowly rounded posteriorly, with the margin 
feebly emarginate at apex, and very finely dentate. 
