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Elytra narrow ; Membrane not \vider than the corium, apex 

 lanceolate. Thighs slightly, gradually clavate, the club not 

 dark coloured. 



Head ochreous-brown, with downy whitish hairs, the posterior 

 J- darker, finely punctured ; Frontal process above long, straight, 

 narrow, flat, with white hairs on the sides ; seen from the side sub- 

 triangular, the underside rounded, the base not touching the face ; 

 side processes straight, parallel, deflected in" front. Antennae yellow- 

 ish ; 1st joint, the club slight, gradual, dusky on the sides ; 3rd not 

 darker at the apex ; 4th black, finely haired, apex brownish. Eyes 

 brown. Ocelli ochreous. Underside red-ochreous, finely, indistinctly 

 punctured. Rostrum piceous, the base paler. 



Thorax, Sides strongly punctured; Pronotum brown-ochreous, 

 depressed transversely in the middle, the anterior half finely, the 

 posterior half strongly punctate ; sides almost parallel, very slightly 

 constricted in front ; the keels strong, whitish, the side ones dimin- 

 ished in height at and behind the slightly raised hinder angles, the 

 central one even throughout ; hinder angles a little rounded, the 

 posterior margin straight. Scutellum ochreous, the centre strongly 

 raised. Elytra narrow, parallel ; in the ? slightly curved on the 

 anterior margin ; Clavus and Corium ochreous or brown-ochreous ; 

 the nerves very strong, shining, the spaces between them on the 

 corium deeply crenate-punctate, more slightly on the clavus ; the 

 nerves and intervals (especially in the <) narrowly streaked with 

 brown, the apex of the corium piceous-black ; membrane-suture 

 brownish ; Membrane dull, brownish, diaphanous, finely crenate, with 

 3 blackish streaks between the nerves, the 2nd very broad at the 

 end, the 2nd nerve generally with a brown streak. At times the 

 membrane is only partially developed. Sternum red-ochreous indis- 

 tinctly punctured. Legs pale or brown-ochreous ; thighs slightly 

 andgraduallyclavate, the cluh not dusky; tarsi ; 1st joint ochreous, 

 the 2nd and 3rd black. 



Abdomen above black ; Connexivum ochreous. Underside shining, 

 red-ochreous, with 2 pitchy-black streaks down each side and a pale 

 line in the centre, distinctly granulose punctate, the edges of the 

 segments smooth. Genital segments beneath ; in the <$ the lateral 

 processes narrow, on the outside straight, the inside curved slightly 

 outwards, the space between the two processes square, except that 

 the very convex centre of the segment is posteriorly rounded and 

 projects a little ; in the ? the processes form a long point, the ends 



