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dark stripe on each side, and a fainter one below it; the 
elytra a pale stripe on interval 1 from the base to the middle, 
and there uniting with a pentagonal pale patch, which extends 
to stria 3 on each side; this patch is embraced by a broad 
V-shaped dark mark, having its apex at the top of the 
declivity and united anteriorly along interval 3 with an 
ill-defined, oblique, subbasal dark patch; a short pale line 
behind the shoulders, and a vague pale mark behind the 
V-shaped patch. 
3S. Head with a deep transverse impression behind the 
eyes, which are relatively large and prominent, the width of 
the forehead distinctly less than the length of the eye. 
Rostrum gradually widening from the base to the middle, the 
gene abruptly dilated, the scrobe about equal to the space 
between it and the eye, the median dorsal area more raised 
than usual and the lateral slope steeper, Antenne with 
brown scaling on the scape, the funicle grey, the last joint 
and the club darker; the scape exceptionally broad, evidently 
broader than the front tibia, subcompressed and slightly 
curved, the sete erect; the funicle with joint 2 scarcely 
longer than 1, joints 3 to 7 subequal, and the club almost 
as long as the three preceding joints. Prothorawx as long as 
broad, parallel-sided to the middle, the subapical constriction 
distinct ; the upper surface almost flat in the pale central 
area, and the sculpturing there entirely hidden by the 
sealing, but on each side of it are two large shallow im- 
pressions, one before and the other behind the middle. Sceu- 
tellum almost circular. Hlytra narrow and _parallel-sided, 
the basal margin shallowly sinuate in the middle, the humeral 
slope running straight to the basal angle, the apical area 
only slightly produced, the apices rounded and _ scarcely 
separated ; the shallow sulci are almost obliterated by the 
dense suberect scaling, and the dorsal punctures are quite 
hidden, though those on the inflexed margins are more or less 
indicated; the intervals 1, 3, 5, and 7 are slightly more 
raised than the others, and all of them have a single row of 
long, stout, erect sete. Legs with pale fawn scaling, the 
front femora with a distinct tooth. 
Length 5, breadth 14 mm. 
Brazin (H. W. Bates). 
This insect and #. equus differ from the other species here 
described in having the scales on the elytra suberect, that 
being the normal position for the scales on the forehead and 
rostrum (and usually also on the scape) in this genus. 
Mr. G. C. Champion has already published a key to the 
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