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broad hilatoral stripe oxtondinjj ol)liqncly from the front 

 margin to the hasjil au^lo hel<)\v the shouhler of the elytra; 

 the elytra with a slightly ohliiiue dorsal stripe from the base 

 to about one-third tlie length, starting at the base on 

 intervals 2 and 3 and ending on intervals 3-5 ; behind the 

 middle a complete broad transverse band gradually widening 

 outwardly and curving forwards at the sides, being usually 

 eontinued as a narrow stripe along interval 8 to the base ; 

 and, finally, a broad V-shaped mark at the apex on 

 intervals 3 and 7-9, not uniting with the transverse band ; 

 the lower surface with dense pale scaling and yellow dusting 

 throughout. 



Head coriaceous on the vertex, the forehead sparsely 

 punctate and with a shallow median fovea. Rostrum only a 

 little longer in ? than in J, strongly detlexed, slightly 

 curved distally, cylindrical as far as the antennai and very 

 little wider beyond; in the ^ closely and fairly strongly 

 l)uncturtd throughout, with a short smooth median line 

 between the antennse, and the submentum with a downwardly 

 projecting tooth ; in the ? the punctures rather smaller 

 and separated. Antenna inserted well beyond the middle in 

 both sexes, the scape longer than the fuuicle ; joint 2 of the 

 funicle as long as but much more slender than 1, 3 to 5 ecjual 

 and as long as or a little longer than broad, 6 wider and 

 longer than broad, 7 as long as the first two joints of the 

 club. Prothora.v widest at the base, subconical, the sides 

 gently rounded and distinctly constricted near the apex ; the 

 anterior dorsal maigin feebly rounded, the postocular lobes 

 distinct and heavily fringed ; the dorsal outline sloping 

 gently near the apex and plane behind ; the dorsum closely 

 set with somewhat depressed, forwardly directed, and pointed 

 granules, each bearing a recun)bent seta, but the apical area 

 only Mith sparse shallow punctures. Scutellum not enclosed, 

 subcircular or slightly transverse, bare, smooth, plane or 

 with a more or less distinct median depression. Elytra 

 subcylindrical, a trifle broader than the base of the pro- 

 thorax, the basal lobes not very strongly produced, and the 

 apices separately routidcd ; the striaj containing large deep 

 punctures as far as the postmedian band, beyond which tiie 

 punctures disappear, striae 4 and 5 being deeper at the base 

 and curved outwards ; the intervals even, rngulose, and 

 sometimes indistinctly granulate, the non-squamose parts 

 fairly densely clothed with short curved setae and thinly 

 covered with yellow or reddi>h powdering ; a broad deep 

 imjjressiou behind the scutellum, the pre-apical impression 

 shallow. Legs (fig. 1, c) rather elongate, rngulose; the 



