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Scutellum rather large, subquadrate, with the posterior angles obtuse 
and the middle of the apex slightly angularly produced and raised; clothed 
like the thorax. 
Elytra regularly ovate at the sides; base conjointly emarginate in the 
middle, each obtusely rounded in front of the shoulders, which are sub- 
callose; they are here as wide as the thorax; sides roundly but moderately 
dilated towards the middle, where they are somewhat narrower than their 
length, thence much more narrowed towards the apex, which is narrowly 
semicircularly rounded in each elytron; sutural angle obsolete; inflected 
margin roundly dilated beneath the base, thence emarginately narrowed 
to somewhat behind the middle; rather convex, especially longitudinally, 
being dehiscent from the third of their length to the apex, and subdepressed 
in the whole of that part of the disc, but not impressed along the suture ; 
thinly and shallowly striate, interstices flat, finely punctulate-subalutaceous, 
clothed like the thorax. 
Pygidium semiovate, scarcely wider than long, oblique, convex with 
the apex deflected, rufous, covered with a cinnabar-ochreous pile of fine 
texture, with yellowish, and at each side of the base greenish, reflexions. 
Body beneath punctulate; thorax beneath, pectus and pectoral laminas 
clothed like the thorax and elytra; abdomen coloured and clothed like the 
pygidium. 
Legs black, covered with a thin pile of the general green colour al¬ 
ready described. Four anterior slender, first pair the slenderest and shortest. 
Posterior nearly as long as the body: thighs reaching the middle of the 
fourth abdominal segment, concave beneath, very slightly convex above, 
inside scarcely, outside roundly dilated to the middle, edentate. Tibice 
one-third shorter, dilated towards the apex, which is obliquely truncate on 
the inside, with two long rufous glossy spines (the external the longest,' 
nearly as long as the interior side of the tibia, slightly incurved; the in¬ 
ternal much shorter, straight); external angle acute. Tarsi much longer 
than the thighs, sublinear; 1st joipt as long as the outer side of the tibiae, 
longer than the anterior tarsi, incurved, truncate, but having its internal 
angle produced into a spine; 2nd thrice shorter, but longer than the first 
joint of the anterior tarsi; 3rd joint of all bilobate, wider than the preceding 
(the posterior narrower), fulvo-spongiose beneath. Claws unidentate inside 
before the middle, rufescent. 
