SALDID^E. 529 



Black, thickly clothed above and beneath with closely appressed 

 yellow hairs, the head only wit.h a few, distant, projecting black 

 hairs ; clavus with 1 long, subapical yellowish spot. Corium ; 

 anterior margin widely and roundly recurved; disk with a 

 central row of 4 long yellow spots, and sometimes 1 or 2 others 

 nearer the inner margin (scarcely visible unless the elytron is 

 lifted). Legs yellow-brown or yellow. 



Head. Face with a few projecting, long, black hairs; central 

 lobe in the middle, and the ends of the side lobes, yellow. Antennae 

 thickly clothed with fine, forwardly 'projecting, black hairs, among 

 which a few are stronger and project at a greater angle ; 1st joint 

 brown, on the upperside the base, on the underside the basal frds 

 black ; 2nd joint light-brown, the base and apex darker ; 3rd and 

 4th black. Eyes black, with yellow, wavy streaks. Ocelli large, 

 black. Nostrum pitchy black, the last joint reddish-yellow ; labrum 

 deep yellow, the margins black. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; sides somewhat flattened, the side-margins 

 slightly reflexed ; the callosity of the disk reaching -|rds of the 

 length, smooth, its central fovea small, the side impressions obso- 

 lete ; posterior furrow deep ; posterior 3rd of disk delicately crenate- 

 punctate. Scutellum finely crenate-punctate, the depression large, 

 shallow, posteriorly somewhat curved inwards and well defined. 

 Elytra ; Clavus with 1 long yellow spot at about Jrds of its length ; 

 Corium ; anterior margin deeply, roundly recurved ; disk with a row 

 of 4 long yellow spots between the 1st and 2nd nerves, and some- 

 times 1 or 2 smaller spots beyond the 2nd nerve, 1 of them near the 

 membrane- suture, the other above ; Membrane yellow-brown, the 

 base more or less, the nerves broadly, and the anterior margin as far 

 as the end of the 1st nerve, black ; generally also there is a brown 

 cloud across the middle of the membrane ; the margin from the 1st 

 nerve inwards, yellow-brown. Sternum black ; coxae black, the 1st 

 pair sometimes yellowish towards the apex. Legs yellow-brown; 

 thighs with very short, yellow hairs ; the 1st pair black on the out- 

 side ; 2nd and 3rd pairs on the inner and outer sides with 2 rows of 

 brown spots, sometimes confluent ; tibiae with short brownish hairs, 

 and distant, strong, projecting, black hairs; tarsi pilose, beneath 

 with strong hairs ; 1st and 3rd joints pitchy black ; 2nd joint and the 

 claws yellow-brown. Sometimes the legs are yellow, and the mark- 

 ings thereon indistinct. 



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