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 strongly microreticulate; punctures coarse to foveate and 



distinctly impressed; orange with black pattern (Fig. 40). 



Head black with an orange spot at each eye; spot often 

 enlarged making black central mark hourglass-shaped. 

 Pronotum with 3 free spots in a transverse row; lateral 

 spots 0.25 to 0.5 size of central spot; central spot large, 

 diameter = 0.5 x or more pronotal length; base with narrow 

 black margin on medial half. Scutellum dark orange to 

 black. Each elytron with orange basal half of epipleural 

 fold; subhumeral spot elongate, touching or nearly touching 

 base; scutellar spot large, rounded, broadly attached to 

 base and suture; sutural margin black; longitudinally 

 elongate central spot connected to suture throughout length, 

 widest anteriorly, truncate posteriorly; lateral spot 

 longitudinally elongate, linear, as long or longer than 

 central spot. Venter black with orange anterior half of 

 prothorax and lateral abdominal sternites. Legs black; 

 palpi and tarsi brown. 



Head dorsal distance between eyes = 2.5 x eye width; 

 ocular striae reaching 0.75 distance to anterior angle of 

 eye, extended forward to apical angle as row of coarse 

 punctures; vertex puncture size = 1.5 x facet, separated by 

 1 diameter; epistome puncture size = 0.75 to 1.0 x facet, 

 separated by 1 diameter. Antenna reaching middle of 

 pronotum; antennomere III as long as next 3 antennomere 

 combined; antennomere IX can be narrower than X; 

 antennomeres X to XI asymmetrical, often appearing 



