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the outer orbits narrowly, and the inner entirely, lined 

 with pale testaceous ; the line on the inner orbits being 

 wider and dilated in the middle. Face and clypeus 

 coarsely punctured all over, except on the sides of 

 the clypeus which are deeply and widely excavated 

 and smooth ; the raised central part of the clypeus is 

 narrowed towards the apex and almost triangular in shape. 

 Except at the base, the mandibles bear large, deep punc- 

 tures and from the middle to the apex, are covered with 

 long, golden fulvous hair. Thorax entirely black, thickly 

 pilose, that on the pleurae and median segment being 

 longer and paler than the hair on the mesonotum. The 

 mesonotum strongly and almost uniformly punctured ; 

 the scutellum more coarsely and rugosely punctured, at 

 its sides running indistinctly into reticulations ; its apex 

 and the greater part of the postscutellum rufo-ferruginous. 

 The median segment has no distinct areae ; the base in 

 the centre has some stout, irregular reticulations ; and, on 

 either side of this, is a large, irregular, stoutly bordered 

 area ; the entire segment is very roughly rugose and, 

 especially at the sides, thickly covered with longish, white 

 hair. The pronotum behind is lined with a pale rufous 

 band ; it is strongly punctured ; the punctures on its 

 base less rugose, more widely separated ; the mesopleurae, 

 except in the middle behind, strongly punctured. The 

 centre of the propleurae is closely, the base of the meso- 

 pleurae is more widely, crenulated ; the metapleurae 

 coarsely, rugosely punctured ; behind the spiracles is a 

 smooth, deep, semicircular depression, from the apex of 

 which a curved furrow runs to near the apex of the pos- 

 terior coxae. Legs black ; the four anterior tibiae and 

 tarsi and the base of the hinder tibiae widely pale testa- 

 ceous ; the posterior coxae are closely punctured except 

 in the middle behind. The triangular areolet receives the 



