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gins of the head narrowly black ; a broad black streak runs 

 down the centre of the insect, and is widest at the base of the 

 pronotum ; it then narrows to the apex of the scutellum, 

 where it terminates in a short black dash ; the black streak is 

 divided down its centre by a narrow yellow line extending from 

 the central lobe of the face to about the middle of the scutellum. 



Head. — Face : central lobe yellow or fuscous yellow, some- 

 what convex from the middle to the apex ; side lobes distinctly 

 constricted before the apex, are rounded and enclose the 

 central lobe, leaving a small notch between them ; lateral 

 margins narrowly black. A black -punctured streak runs down 

 the centre of the head, commencing almost in a point at the 

 apex, gradually widening until about in a line with the middle 

 of the central lobe, where it slightly curves and then continues 

 almost of the same width to the base of the head ; the black 

 streak is divided down the centre by a narrow yellow line ex- 

 tending from the central lobe to the base. Atitennce red, first 

 and second joints yellow. Ei/eshlack. OceZZi reddish. Rostrum 

 yellow, apex black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum: lateral margins narrowly yellow, with- 

 in which is a black streak, widest next the hinder angles; 

 •basal region transversely more or less inclined to fuscous ; 

 posterior margin across the scutellum very narrowly yellow ; 

 the broad black streak down the centre of the disk divided by 

 the narrow yellow line slightly disappears before reaching the 

 posterior margin. Scutellum somewhat broad ; basal angles 

 with a short punctured black channel ; lateral margins from 

 the centre to the apex generally pale ; down the centre is a 

 broad black streak, terminating at the apex in a short black 

 dash ; the black streak is divided by a narrow yellow line ex- 

 tending from the base to about the middle of the disk ; punc- 

 tures at the base larger than those on the sides and apex. 

 Elytra black-punctured, similar to those on the apex of the 

 scutellum. Corium : nerve yellow, unpunctm-ed and with a 

 row of fine pimctm-es on its inner margin ; interior margin 

 below the middle of the scutellum more or less piceous. Mem- 

 brane clear ; first exterior nerve piceous. Sternum ochreous, 

 sides and in front black-punctured ; base of first and third pairs 

 of legs with a large black puncture, second with two. Legs 

 ochreous or yellow : thighs, first pair on the underside thickly 

 black-punctured, second and third at the apex finely black- 

 punctured, in the latter sometimes almost obsolete, all the 

 pairs -with two large transversely placed black spots on the 

 inside a little before the apex : tibue, tarsi, and claivs yellow ; 

 apex of the last dark piceous. 



Abdomen above black, beneath ochreous or yellow, with six 



