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portion of the front between the eyes longer than wide, feebly 
constricted at middle, and distinctly expanded before the 
epistoma, from which it is separated by an entire carina. 
Epistoma a little wider than long, emarginate in front. 
Eyes prominent, more than twice as long as wide. Antennae 
very short, serrate from the fifth joint, reaching the middle 
of the pronotum. 
Pronotum more than twice as wide as long, distinctly nar- 
rower in front than behind ; anterior margin bisinuate, with 
the anterior angles prominent, the median lobe slightly 
prominent and broadly rounded ; the sides expanded and very 
regularly arcuate, with the lateral margins feebly crenulate ; 
base strongly bisinuate, with the median lobe rounded in 
front of the scutellum; lateral carinse entire, feebly sinuate 
when viewed from side; posterior angles entirely rounded; 
angular carinae very arcuate, reaching from the posterior 
angles to the apical fifth, where they are abruptly terminated. 
Disk convex anteriorly, broadly concave posteriorly, with a 
rather deep depression on each side, reaching from the pos- 
terior margin to near the anterior angles. Surface distinctly 
and regularly punctate, semicircularly and finely striate, 
sparsely clothed with white, semi-recumbent hairs. 
Scutellum wide, subtriangular, finely transversely strigose, 
with a very distinct transverse carina. 
Elytra a little wider at the shoulders than at the middle, 
slightly wider at the shoulders than behind the middle (a 
little wider behind the middle than at the shoulders in the 
female), rather convex; the sides slightly, arcuately con- 
stricted from the shoulders to posterior third, arcuately at- 
tenuate apically, tips nearly conjointly rounded, but with 
sutural angles rounded, without denticles; the sides of the 
elytra very finely, almost indistinctly serrate behind the 
shoulders and in the posterior third. Surface finely imbri- 
cate, indistinctly punctate, each elytron with a shallow de- 
pression at the base and another behind the shoulders along 
the lateral margin. Disk of the elytra clothed with a very fine, 
semi-recumbent pubescence; this pubescence blackish and 
inconspicuous on the ground between the designs of silvery 
and yellow (mixed) hairs, which are disposed as follows: the 
basal quarter except the humeri nearly covered with inter- 
mixed silvery and yellow hairs ; a lateral spot at the middle 
