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elevated, not very broad. Antennae with first segment long and 

 club-shaped, second also club-shaped but thinner than first and 

 somewhat shorter than third, fourth almost equal in length to the 

 third, but shorter than the following, fifth, sixth, and seventh 

 almost equal in length, eighth shorter than seventh or ninth, the 

 last three almost equal in length. Prothorax subquadrate, slightly 

 broader than long ; lateral margins almost straight but somewhat 

 convex at about the middle, anterior margin almost straight 

 posterior widely arched, anterior angles slightly expanded, posterior 



Fig. 89.-- Xuthea orientalis, Baly, $. 



angles obtuse ; surface convex and entirely covered withja mixture 

 of coarser and finer punctures, the density of which varies con- 

 siderably ; there is a transvere depression bounded on each side 

 by a longitudinal line. Scutdlum slightly depressed in the middle, 

 impunctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax; on each 

 elytron there are eleven very regularly arranged longitudinal rows, 

 including a long scutellar row, gradually vanishing beyond the 

 middle, and an extreme marginal row ; interstices smooth and flat ; 

 humerus prominently convex, and internal to it there is also a 



