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Head black ; frontal spines stout, obtuse, divergent, brown ; 

 antenniferous spines stout, short, obtuse, deflected, light brown 

 at the apex. Antennas ; 1st 2 joints brown, 3rd filiform, slightly 

 thickened, but not bulbous, at the base, yellow-brown or ferruginous; 

 4th subfusiform, short, obtuse, black ; 3rd and 4th with fine short 

 hairs. Eyes red -brown. Rostrum light brown, the end black ; sides 

 of the rostral channel broadly pale yellow. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; hood in front rounded, sides concave or 

 sinuate, extending narrowly to the anterior angles of the pronotum 

 and joined to the side margins, the top with a fine keel, each side with 

 9 or 10 deep, round punctures in 4 rows ; side margins reflexed, of 

 equal breadth throughout, in front projecting forwards, the outer 

 angle obtuse, the edge slightly curved ; posterior angles projecting, 

 broadly rounded, almost opaque, the meshes small, oval, in 3 rows ; 

 disk on the 1st 3rd with a deep, flat, transverse, black depression, 

 quadrangular, or rather of the form of 2 triangles with their base 

 outwards and their truncate apices joined together ; the scutellar 

 process slightly convex, raised over the base of the elytra, its apex 

 subacute ; the keel deep and with a single row of meshes on the 

 depressed portion of the pronotum, shallow on the hood and scutellar 

 process. Elytra broad, oval, the base wider than the pronotum, with 

 the angles rounded ; anterior margin reflexed, widest and flattest 

 beyond the middle, with small, rounded, transparent meshes, in 2 

 rows to the middle (where sometimes is only one row), then in 3 

 oblique rows, and towards the apex in 2 rows ; inner margins 

 straight, not overlapping each other ; disk flat from the outer margin 

 of the cell to the inner margin of the elytron ; outside the cell broad, 

 greatly deflected to the anterior margin ; cells about f rds the length 

 of the elytra, the nerves strong, raised ; the apical nerve strong, 

 curved slightly inwards, not quite reaching the apex of the elytron ; 

 the reticulation in small, rounded meshes, between the cell and inner 

 margin in 2 rows, within the cell in 5 rows, outside the cell in 4 or 

 5 rows ; posterior to the cell the meshes are scarcely larger and in 

 longitudinal rows. Over the elytra, the margin often included, are 

 irregularly scattered, small black spots, which sometimes become 

 confluent and form blotches. Sternum light brown, with distinct, 

 deep punctures, a large spot at the base of each coxa, and the sides 

 of the rostral channel pale yellow; Legs; thighs piceous, base and 

 apex brown or ferruginous ; tibia ferruginous ; tarsi piceous. 



Abdomen beneath shining, brown or black-brown. 



