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slight virescent reflexion in certain lights, each with an irregular 

 basal patch and an interrupted apical fascia testaceous. The an- 

 tennae, the parts of the mouth, the margins of the thorax and elv- 

 tra, and the legs pale ferruginous. Head dark brown or piceous, 

 about the same breadth before as behind the eyes, upper surface 

 exceedingly densely and pretty deeply corrugated all over, so 

 much so as to appear almost opaque; clypeus transverse, nar- 

 rowest in front, wrinkled, separated from front by a marked 

 straight line ; labrum about the same length as the clypeus, 

 narrowest in front, truncate, with a longitudinal groove in the 

 middle in front, and a puncture on the margin near the apex ; 

 mandibles sharp and projecting, but not so much so as in the 

 next species ; terminal joint of palpi subcylindric and subacumi- 

 nate. Antennse about the length of head and thorax, the end 

 of the fourth, the fifth and remaining joints flattened. Eyes 

 very large. Thorax considerably broader than head, cordiform, 

 gently convex in the middle, and with very broad and deeply 

 reflexed margins, which have here and there a few large punc- 

 tures scattered in the bottom of the hollow ; the disk very 

 faintly wrinkled across, and with a dorsal longitudinal stria, 

 fuscous, but paler than head, in some lights faintly virescent ; 

 margins semitransparent and broadly testaceous; posterior 

 angles nearly right-angled ; base truncate. Scutellum testaceo- 

 fuscous, impunctate. Elytra shining, broader than thorax, but 

 not twice as broad, somewhat convex; base nearly straight; 

 sides very slightly expanded ; pitchy-black when looked at from 

 in front backwards, virescent when looked at from behind 

 forwards, deeply puiictate-striate; eight strise, besides scutellar 

 and marginal strise ; the interstices convex and apparently im- 

 punctate ; but with a very powerful lens, a few punctures of the 

 faintest description may be traced, disposed in a row along each 

 interstice ; a fovea on the inner side of the second interstice near 

 the apex, and another about one-third from it ; another on the 

 third stria about the same distance from the base ; a series of 

 round, flat-bottomed foveas on the marginal interstice ; apex ob- 

 liquely truncate and excised, the exterior apical angle flattened and 

 rounded ; the seventh stria sweeps round at the apex, enclosing 

 those nearer the suture ; margin inflexed, inflexed portion and 

 raised edge of margin testaceous ; a transverse testaceous patch 

 about one-fourth from the base is disposed as a series of longi- 

 tudinal stripes occupying five interstices between the strise as 

 follows : — the longest stripe on the space between the third and 

 fourth striae, the second longest between the second and third, 

 the shortest between the fourth and fifth, and the remaining 

 two, on the spaces between the fifth and seventh strise, are next 

 shortest, and of about equal length ; a transverse, interrupted, 

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