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medio et abdomine plumbeo-nigris, antennarum articulo basali 
iiigro ; tarsis tibiisque posticis fuscis ; maris elytrorum parte pos- 
tica, foeminae elytris totis plumbeo-nigris. Long. 4-6 lin. c? $ . 
Head tawny red, vertex marked with a few shallow punctures 
and a smooth central line. Antennae with a scanty fringe of 
short stiff hairs, reddish ; basal joint and tips of other joints 
black. Thorax narrower than the head, broadest in the middle, 
constricted behind, marked with a few shallow punctures, tawny 
red. Scutellum reddish. Elytra tapering in the male, nearly 
linear in the female ; apex obliquely truncated, with the outer 
angles dentate ; surface smoothly punctured, partly in lines ; 
colour in the males tawny red, with the posterior part more or 
less black, with pale silky pile; in the females wholly black, 
with pale silky pile. Body beneath tawny red ; centre of breast 
and abdomen almost entirely black, with silvery silky pile. Legs 
tawny red, tarsi and posterior tibise dusky. 
Abundant at Santarern on the leaves of shrubs, borders of 
woods. The species seems to differ from the New Granada form 
which has been described by M. Thomson under the name of 
A. apicalis* 
