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segments become larger and thicker. Prothorax broader than 

 long, narrowed in front, sides slightly rounded, front margin 

 straight, base sinuate, anterior angles expanded into a small hollow, 

 posterior almost right angles ; surface convex, very densely 



Fig. 92. — Clitea picta, Baly; showing points of insertion of antennae 

 close to inner margins of eye? 



Fig. 93. — Clitea picta, Baly ; whole insect, and part of the surface 

 of the elytra, enlarged to show the punctuation. 



punctate with larger and much finer punctures, which are indis- 

 criminately mixed. Scutellum small, triangular, smooth, and 

 impunctate. Elytra hardly broader at base than prothorax, 

 humerus convex and very finely punctate; each elytron has a 



