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Fuscous black with the elytra chocolate brown, head 
rufescent with a median black transverse patch ; antennae 
less filiform, shorter and black ; a median longitudinal 
band on the vertex and on the prothorax, a narrow line 
on the suture of the elytra and the outer margin, and a 
similarly narrow one on the median part of the disk . . var. damarina. 
The same but without traces of the median dorsal white line 
on the elytra ovampoa. 
Body black, with only a faint greyish pubescent line along 
the outer margin of the elytra moesta. 
Black, clothed with a dense greyish flavescent pubescence ; 
head rufous, with the exception of the epistome and labrum 
which are black rufifrons. 
Black, clothed with a very dense sub-flavescent pubescence 
hiding the whole of the teguments ; head rufous, epistome 
and labrum black jucunda. 
B3. Prothorax sub-quadrate, neck very short. 
Antennse moderately long, intermediate joints not twice as 
long as broad. 
Black, body clothed with a very dense appressed, pile-like 
greyish pubescence ; antennse black with the three basal joints 
rufescent velata. 
The same, but the head rufescent with a broad transverse 
black patch hrevipennis. 
Black, clothed with a fine greyish pubescence ; head rufes- 
cent with a broad, transverse black patch ; elytra with a 
greyish line on the suture, the outer margin and the discoidal 
part var. designata. 
Elytra singly rounded at apex but not divaricating. 
B^. Prothorax longer than broad, very strongly narrowed laterally 
for about one-third of the length, depressed anteriorly above 
and sub-gibbose in the posterior part. 
C3. Antennse very long, intermediate joints twice as long as 
broad. 
Black, thorax red ; elytra black at apex and base, and 
also with an elongated dorsal patch, the rest of the 
surface pale yellow ■ optata. 
Black, clothed with a very short greyish pubescence, 
frontal part and prothorax red ; prothorax red with two 
black spots ; tibiae red bisignata. 
Black, clothed with a dense appressed greyish pubescence ; 
prothorax reddish yellow ; tibise black Strang ulata. 
Black, almost glabrous ; frontal part with a broad red 
macule ; prothorax red ; head closely punctate bicolor. 
Blue-black, glabrous ; prothorax sub-scrobiculate punctate mima. 
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