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Long-oval, black-brown, dull; 2nd joint of the antenna as long as 

 the 3rd and 4th together; the widened anterior margin of 

 the elytra dirty yellowish-brown ; the projecting angles of the 

 connexwum reddish-yellow. 



Head with coarse yellowish granulations ; Grown very convex, 

 with a deep channel on each side ; sides widened, slightly renexed, 

 before the eyes deflected. Antennce very thick ; 1st two joints with 

 very short petioles ; the 2nd slightly widened to the apex ; 3rd with 

 the apex straight, scarcely widened, the upper half dirty, pale 

 yellowish, sometimes black ; 4th narrower than the third, long 

 fusiform, apex white. Rostrum yellow-brown, the end black. 



Thorax. Pronotum, anterior margin slightly concave ; anterior 

 angles acute ; side margins renexed, widely divergent, nearly 

 straight to the hinder angles, which are broadly rounded ; hinder 

 side margin continuously rounded, somewhat convergent ; posterior 

 angles broadly rounded into the posterior margin, which is slightly 

 concave in the middle, roundly produced at the ends over the base 

 of the elytra ; the edge, as far as the posterior angles, with large, 

 spinose granulations ; disk in the middle transversely depressed, in 

 front with four small tubercles, one on each keel ; the two middle 

 keels go the whole length of the pronotum, are nearer to each other 

 than to the side keels, towards each end slightly divergent ; side 

 keels abbreviated in front, divergent hindwardly, all the keels and 

 the callosities at the posterior angles with large granulations ; the 

 keels, side margins, and posterior angles dirty yellowish, on the 

 latter broadly suffused. Scutellum concave, with a broad callosity 

 on the basal \ sides curved, apex sub-acute. Elytra not so long 

 as the abdomen ; Clavus black-brown, claval suture brown-yellowish ; 

 Gorium, base yellow-brown, posteriorly black-brown; the widened 

 portion of the anterior margin dirty yellowish-brown, not reaching 

 half the length, and gradually diminished posteriorly; Membrane 

 blackish-brown ; nerves yellowish ; reticulations whitish ; an un- 

 defined, yellowish spot at the base of the inner margin. Sternum ; 

 a spot at the base of the coxa3, pale-yellow ; thighs red-brown, base 

 and apex pale yellowish ; tibia yellowish-brown, apex pale yellowish 

 tarsi brown. 



Abdomen in the $ beneath, the 5th segment in the middle of the 

 posterior margin straight, thence to the sides oblique ; the 6th seg- 

 ment is only visible on each side of the genital segments as a 



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