158 

 free or connected to scutellar spot; scutellar spot large, 



broadly connected to base and suture; suture finely margined 



in black; central spot large, triangular, broadly connected 



to suture, widest anteriorly, pointed posteriorly. Venter 



black, with lateral prothorax and lateral abdominal 



sternites orange. Legs black; palpi and tarsi brown. 



Head dorsal distance between eyes =2.2 x eye width; 

 ocular striae reaching 0.75 to 1.0 distance to anterior 

 angle of eye; vertex puncture size = 1 x facet, separated 1 

 to 2 diameters; epistome puncture size = 0.5 x facet, 

 separated by 1 diameter. Antenna reaching middle of 

 pronotum; antennomere III as long as next 3 antennomere 

 combined; antennomeres X to XI symmetrical; antennomere XI 

 transverse, narrower than antennomere X (similar to Fig. 

 61) . 



Maxillary palp terminal segment triangular, 

 securiform, basally rounded, apical angles less than 90°, 

 length = 0.5 x width. Labial palp terminal segment 

 elongate, extended on medial side, rounded basally, length = 

 0.5 x width. Labial palp width = 0.5 x maxillary palp width 

 (similar to Fig. 7c) . Mentum with plate triangular, length 

 = 0.75 x width, apical sides straight or outwardly curved, 

 ridge medial extension acute (similar to Fig. 8a) . 



Pronotum puncture size = 1 x facet, separated 1 to 2 

 diameters; denser laterally, separated by 0.5 to 1.0 

 diameter. Scutellum pentagonal, length = 0.6 x width. Each 

 elytron with 7 complete striae; stria VIII weak, visible on 



