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INSECTA SAUNDEKSlAIsA. 
scutellum, where it is lobate; rather convex, finely and densely punctate, 
the sides having in addition deep distant punctures; rufous, shining, with 
scattered hairs of the same colour, especially round the apex, the lateral 
margins and the posterior lobe ; having six lines of yellow hair, — one on 
each lateral margin, —two longitudinal in the middle, from the apical angle 
to the base, where they are more approximate and broader, encircling the 
lobe, —two oblique, rising from the middle of the apex, where they meet 
angularly, and, terminating a little above the posterior angle, there joining 
the marginal line; all these lines, by crossing each other obliquely, form 
rhombical figures or lozenges. 
Scutellum oblong-triangular ; apex narrowly truncate, obsoletely bifid ; 
yellow-haired. 
Elytrg ovate; base obliquely emarginate, especially towards the scu¬ 
tellum, for the reception of the lobe of the thorax, exactly the breadth of 
the latter; shoulders within the basal angles of the thorax subcallose; sides 
somewhat broadened as far as the third part of the length, then narrowed 
towards the apex, being posteriorly evidently narrower than at the base ; 
apex of each rounded ; narrowly and slightly striate-punctate, punctures 
distant, slightly impressed ; interstices densely slightly and finely aluta- 
ceous; rufous, with a thin pubescence of the same colour, with denudate 
shining patches; marked with several oblique yellow-haired lines, crossing- 
one another; the 1st starting from behind the shoulder, directed to the suture 
above the middle, where it meets the opposite line; 2nd from the margin 
somewhat above the middle to the suture beyond the middle, parallel to the 
former, meeting also its opposite at the suture, where it is subobsolete; 3rd 
from the apex of the scutellum to the middle of the lateral margin ; 4th 
arising from the end of the first at the suture, where it forms an angle with 
it aud crosses the opposite line, directed also towards the margin behind 
the middle, parallel to the preceding, both crossing the two former; a 5th 
line, less oblique, descending from the margin to the third stria not far 
from the apex; a Cth longitudinal, posterior, between the second and third 
striae from the end of the second to that of the fifth line ; an apical circle 
joining above the fifth and sixth; all the lines crossing one another form 
lozenges and rhombical figures; base of elytra and part of suture also 
narrowly clothed with yellow hairs. 
Pygidium shortly obconic, oblique, longitudinally strigose, rufous, 
clothed with pubescence like the elytra; the margin, a line along the mid¬ 
dle and a basal oblique line on each side of yellow pile. 
Body beneath : —Pectus longitudinally strigose, rufous, with yellow 
