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starting from the front margin of tlic pronotnm on a line 

 •with the inner edge of the eye, rnnning on to the elytra on 

 the base of interval 5, almost immediately passing to 6 and 

 continuing on it for one-third the length, then passing to 7 

 and there continued to the apex, though sometimes more or 

 less broadly intcrrui)tcd behind the middle ; at about one- 

 third from the base the longitudinal strijjc emits a transverse 

 band of the same uidth reaching almost to the suture and 

 sloping slightly backwards, and at two-thirds the length a 

 similar but much more oblique, and therefore longer, band ; 

 between these bands, but on the outer side of the stripe, two 

 short, variable, and often irregular bands usually reaching 

 stria 9 : stria 1 with a row of pule dots on the declivit}^, each 

 formed of about four scales (often abraded) ; the prothorax 

 with a sharply-defined, narrow, lateral stripe extending from 

 the postocular lobe to the basal constriction on a line with 

 stria 10 ; the lower surface fairly densely clothed with small 

 pale scales and buff powdering. 



Head with close shallow punctation, the forehead with a 

 transverse depression covered with dense scaling. Rostrum 

 elongate, cylindrical, scarcely widened at the apex, feebly 

 curved, coarsely punctate, and dorsally bicarinate as far as 

 the antennae, each of the punctures containing a scale, and 

 the apical area with small sparse punctures ; in the ? as 

 long as but distinctly more slender than in the ^ , but the 

 punctation only very slightly finer. Antennce inserted a 

 little beyond the middle in both sexes, the scape as long as 

 the funiele, of which joint 1 is shorter than 2 + 3, 3 to G are 

 transverse, and 7 is about as long as the club. Prot/torax 

 rather broader than long, rounded at the sides, widest 

 behind the middle, constricted at the base and more strongly 

 so in front ; the dorsal apical margin gently rounded, the 

 longitudinal outline feebly convex ; the dorsum evenly set 

 with low granules, the apical area shallowly punctate. 

 Scutellum not enclosed, small, transverse, smooth, and bare. 

 Elytra subcylindrical, a little broader at the shoulders than 

 the base of the prothorax, obtusely acuminate behind, and 

 with a strong transverse basal imjjression ; the shallow strife 

 with large quadrate punctures as far as the posterior band, 

 behind which the striie are deeper and the punctures much 

 smaller and shallower, the punctures without scales or 

 granules ; the intervals narrower than the strife, subcostate, 

 with small indistinct grannies, which arc more numerous at 

 the base, and with microscopic setse. Legs (fig. 1, i) rather 

 long and slender, with coarse shallow punctures, each of 

 which contains a scale ; the femora with a sharp simple 



