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base sometimes blackish. Antenna black. Eyes brown or brownish- 

 black. Eostrum ; 1st and 2nd joints yellow ; 3rd brownish ; 4th black. 



Thorax. Pronotum black, dull; side margins narrowly and a 

 central streak, yellow. Scutellum black ; basal angles more or less 

 reddish or reddish-yellow, or the base as far as the transverse channel, 

 brownish or reddish-yellow ; hinder portion with a yellow central 

 line. Elytra : Clavus; inner margin narrowly black ; disk brownish- 

 pink, occasionally pale reddish ; nerve rosy ; Corium pale yellow 

 between the 1st nerve and the anterior margin ; the former broadly 

 yellowish-white ; sometimes its outer margin towards the apex nar- 

 rowly pale reddish ; base sometimes reddish ; between the claval 

 suture and the 1st nerve brownish-pink ; Cuneus pale yellow ; Mem- 

 Irane brownish-black, iridescent; cell-nerves reddish or brownish- 

 red ; inner cell frequently white. Sternum black ; base of the coxae 

 yellowish. Legs; thighs brownish, with a few black spots on 

 the upperside next the palish apex ; 3rd pair darkest, with a longi- 

 tudinal row of black spots on the underside ; tibice brownish-yellow, 

 sparingly set with short, somewhat spinose, black hairs ; tarsi brown- 

 ish-yellow ; 3rd joint and claws black. 



Abdomen black, clothed with short golden yellow hairs on the 

 underside. 



$ rosy, clothed with very short, fine, white hairs. 



Head yellowish; Crown with 2 brown spots near the hinder 

 margin of the eyes ; Face ; central lobe, at the base, in the middle, 

 with a very short brown streak. Antenna yellow; 3rd and 4th 

 joints brownish, apex of the latter reddish-brown. Eostrum yel- 

 lowish; 4th joint black. 



Thorax. Pronotum yellowish or dark grayish-yellow, sometimes 

 with a reddish tinge ; margins narrowly yellowish- white ; central line 

 yellow or pale green. Scutellum rosy, reddish-yellow, or greenish- 

 yellow ; central line pale yellowish-white. Elytra : Clavus ; inner 

 margin narrowly black ; disk yellow, with a rosy tinge ; nerve rosy ; 

 Corium from the anterior margin to beyond the 1st nerve pale 

 yellowish-white; apex between the 1st nerve and the anterior 

 margin more or less rosy, thence to the claval suture rosy ; Cuneus 

 pale yellowish- white ; Membrane paler than in the $ ; inner mar- 

 ginal nerve brownish-black; cell-nerves rosy. Sternum greenish- 

 yellow. Legs yellowish ; other characters as in the $ . 



Abdomen. Underside, greenish yellow. 



Length, If line. 



The spots on the thighs of the < are not so distinct as in the $ . 



