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HALTICINiE. 



81. Demarchus pubipennis, Jacoby. 



Demarches pubipennis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 101. 



Colour testaceous ; elytra obscure fulvous, with the basal and 

 lateral margins obscurely piceous, the dark colour on the lateral 

 margins in some cases not extending to the apex ; labrum piceous. 



Head', vertex depressed, rugose, the frontal tubercles distinct, 

 nearly square and smooth. Antennae nearly as long as the body; 

 first segment long and club-shaped, second shorter than third; 

 the third and four following segments elongate, nearly equal to 

 each other in length, the four apical segments slightly shorter. 



Fig. 51. — Demarchus pubipe/niis, .Inc. 



Protliorax twice as broad as long, sides rounded at the middle, 

 narrowed near the anterior angles, the latter slightly prominent ; 

 posterior angles rounded, front and basal margins almost straight ; 

 surface shining, scarcely visibly punctate near the sides, with a 

 short anterior and a posterior transverse depression and a small 

 anterior fovea, as well as an obsolete oblique posterior lateral 

 depression on either side. Scutellum triangular with apex rounded, 

 punctate and hairy. Elytra broader at the base than the pro- 

 thorax, closely pubescent, very finely rugose-punctate, each 

 puncture bearing a short silvery adpressed hair. Underside 



