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the rest of the elytra clothed with dark brown scales varie- 

 guted with narrower light brown and white scales, and with 

 a conspicuous spot of broader white scales before the middle 

 on the eighth interval. 



Head with the inner edge of the eyes strongly raised above 

 the general level ; the forehead very narrow, not broader than 

 the antennal club, and broadly impressed behind ; the vertex 

 rugosely punctured, with a well-marked central carina and 

 densely clotlied with elongate p;ile scales. Rosb'uni piceous 

 black, with the extreme apex reddish ; long, slender, and 

 cylindrical, extending beyond the middle of the nietasternum ; 

 rather dull and very finely aciculate, with two short indistinct 

 furrows on each side at the base, and no central carina ; the 

 j)unctures indistinct at the base, shallow and widely separated 

 tor most of the length, and deeper near the apex. Antennce 

 testaceous ; the scape without any apical process ; the three 

 basal joints of the funicle subequal in length, joints 4 and 5 

 a little longer tlian broad, 6 almost globular. Frotkorax with 

 the basal spine very long, about as long as the jirothorax, 

 and extending along nearly two-thirds of the elytral suture ; 

 the sides (viewed vertically) almost straight and shorter than 

 half the basal margin ; the front margin somewhat produced 

 dorsall}^, the produced portion elevated and truncate in the 

 middle, so that when seen from in front it appears as a flat- 

 tened triangle ; the upper surface covered with large irregular 

 reticulate punctures, tiie median area raised and strongly 

 compressed in the anterior half, being bounded by a sharp 

 carina on each side to about the middle, the central carina 

 well-marked throughout ; the dorsal outline distinctly convex 

 and deepest about the middle ; the scales on the sides of the 

 prothorax are mostly setiform, but there is a patch... of much 

 broader scales just below the outer carina and another patch 

 some distance below that. Elytra about as long as broad ; 

 the striaj broad and deep, with large punctures and without 

 rows of scales, except in the first stria ; the intervals some- 

 what broader than the striae and irregularly granulate ; the 

 scales on the greater part of the surface are small, narrow, 

 parallel-sided, and truncate at the tip, but those in the raised 

 patch along the suture, in the basal stripe on interval 2, the 

 subhumeral patch, and the white border are broader and 

 elliptical in shape. Legs piceous, the tarsi paler; the femora 

 densely clothed with broad pale scales and all with a strong 

 tooth ; the dorsal apical fringe of the posterior tibiaa much 

 longer than the first tarsal joint. Ster'num with the front 

 coxse widely separated ; the mesosternum almost horizontal 

 and broadly and shallowly impressed; the nietasternum with 



