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The Philippine Journal of Science 
1921 
Head with the front rather deeply concave between the eyes, 
without distinct median longitudinal groove, but with a rather 
deep, wide, median depression, reaching from middle to clypeal 
suture; surface with a deep, round puncture in front of suture 
near base of antennae, very finely punctate, and densely clothed 
with long, golden yellow, recumbent pubescence; eyes rather 
strongly margined on the inner side; epistoma wide, slightly 
elevated, finely, transversely strigose, anterior margin very 
deeply, arcuately emarginate, the angles rather broad; antennae 
widely separated ; clypeal suture not very distinct, broadly 
arcuate. Pronotum short, nearly three and one-half times as 
wide as long, narrower in front than behind; surface densely 
marked with circles, becoming less distinct on disk, clothed with 
white and dark reddish brown, recumbent hairs, arranged in 
distinct, irregular series over the entire surface, the darker hairs 
becoming inconspicuous on the dark areas; anterior margin 
slightly, arcuately emarginate, anterior angles obtuse; sides 
slightly flattened, finely crenulate and feebly, obliquely arcuate;, 
base bisinuate, with a broadly rounded median lobe in front of 
the scutellum. Scutellum very small, triangular. Elytra a lit- 
tle wider than pronotum at base, strongly attenuate to near the 
tips, which are conjointly rounded and slightly gibbose; humeri 
not prominent, longitudinally carinate in front ; surface without 
lateral carina, densely, finely punctate, with a wide, shallow 
depression along base and a somewhat deeper one along the 
lateral margin below the humerus, rather densely clothed with 
long, very slender, black hairs, intermixed with broader, silvery 
white, recumbent ones, the white hairs forming irregular designs 
on the anterior half and a double transverse zigzag row at the 
apical third. Beneath rather convex; abdomen densely reticu- 
late and very finely granulate, with a few white recumbent hairs ; 
prosternum not divided, anterior margin truncate and slightly 
elevated ; intercoxal process elongate, flat, elevated, narrower in 
front than behind, sides distinctly margined, apex dilated and 
broadly rounded; mesosternum with the anterior margin ar- 
cuately emarginate ; tarsi reddish brown, with the lamellae paler ; 
claws black. 
Length, 3.65 millimeters ; width, 2. 
Described from one specimen in the United States National 
Museum collection, collected in Mindanao, May, 1914 (C. V . 
Piper ) . 
