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moderately narrow, convex, forming an 8-sided tablet, which is bilobed 

 above, grooved down the middle, and with the lower side-margins of 

 the clypens a little carinated, black ; an oblong callous spot each side 

 next the eyes yellow ; tylus smooth, black, yellow at tip ; labram pice- 

 ous, pubescent, yellow along the middle line; eyes brown, oblique, and 

 very prominent ; base of head convex, forming a rather long neck, 

 densely, minutely granulated ; tip of the lower cheeks orange ; bucculse 

 and throat dull black, minutely scabrous and whitish pubescent. Eos 

 trum reaching behind the intermediate coxse, blackish-piceous, paler at 

 tip. Antennse slender, as long as from the tylus to tip of clavus, pice- 

 ous ; the basal joint stouter, fulvous at tip ; the second very long, much 

 more than twice the length of the first, pubescent ; third and fourth 

 dull black, pubescent, slenderly subfusiform, subequal, each about two- 

 thirds the length of the second. Pronotum subcampanulate, trans- 

 verse, densely clothed with prostrate golden pubescence, the anterior 

 part very narrow, with the sides steep , the callosities prominent, con- 

 vex, rugose, deeply indented on the middle and obliquely so each side 

 of it ; posterior lobe about one-half as long as the preceding, deeply, 

 squarely sinuated, the humeral angles obliquely prolonged, flattened, 

 longitudinally sulcated, rugose; the sides broadly flattened, tapering 

 anteriorly, the margin abruptly recurved, and fading out next the col- 

 lum. Pectus polished black, finely, prostrate, whitish pubescent; pro- 

 sternum very slenderly margined with white. Legs dull testaceous, the 

 femora more or less piceous beneath and on the front and hind sur- 

 faces ; tibiae with piceous knees, spines, and tip; tarsi dull testaceous, 

 the basal and apical joints piceous, the nails dull testaceous. Scutellum 

 coarsely, densely scabrous on the prouiinent base, the impression very 

 distinct, arcuated ; the apical division transversely rugulose. Hemely- 

 tra narrow, thin, very minutely scabrous, with a very few coarse punct- 

 ures on basal and costal areoles ; clavus black, golden pubescent, hav- 

 ing a few coarse punctures and a wedge-shaped yellow spot next the tip, 

 placed on a velvety-black spot ; corium yellowish, the costal margin 

 broadly arcuated, the base broadly flattened and turned up, the edge 

 black ; costal area broad and long, the base blackish, the middle with a 

 quadrate spot, and near the tip a roundish one ; nervures coarse and 

 deep black ; the inner areole black, with two yellow small spots next 

 the outer margin and before the apex, and with a larger one at the in- 

 ner angle; the central areole black at base, next a large yellow spot, 

 and then black with three moderately large yellow^ spots, the last one 

 is separated from the apical margin by a black line; membrane pale 

 yellowish, blackish at base, with black nervules margined with blackish, 

 and spots at their tips ; a marginal blackish line on the apical two-thirds 

 of the outer nervule, and with a transverse series of streaks ; oblong 

 spots on the middle of the areoles. Venter black, minutely sericeous 

 pubescent; the middle of the disk and the posterior part of the genita 

 segment yellowish ; posterior margin of the segments pale piceous. 



