INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
appearance of emargination in the middle above the scutellum ; convex, 
especially in the middle near the apex ; with coarse and deep punctures 
somewhat distant, and between them minute punctures and rugosities here 
and there denudate and shining; densely covered with a white pile of a 
fine texture, with the middle black, having a thick short black velvet pile, 
here and there wanting, leaving the aforesaid shining patches; this black 
spot is nearly in the form of a lozenge truncate at its apical angle ; it em¬ 
braces almost the whole of the upper part of the apex, its sides are nearly 
as oblique as the sides of the thorax, running very near them as far as the 
middle of the length, where they form an angle, then run obliquely inwards, 
and meet together subangularly above the middle of the base. 
Scutellum transverse, nearly of a reversed cordate form, densely clothed 
with a white pile. 
Elytra broad, together nearly as wide as long, more than twice the 
length of the thorax, and being at least of the same width at the base, 
which is closely applied to it, being emarginate in the middle for the re¬ 
ception of its produced part and the scutellum, thence straightly truncate 
from the middle of each to the side; shoulders callose; sides somewhat 
widened to two-thirds of the length, thence rather abruptly rounded to¬ 
wards the apex, which is semicircular in each elytron, with the sutural 
angle obtusely rounded ; very slightly convex; narrowly punctate-striate ; 
punctures deep at the base, then slightly impressed ; interstices wide, ra¬ 
ther coarsely rugose, especially at the base, here and there denudate, shin¬ 
ing ; black ; suture in the middle widely covered with a white pile of a fine 
texture, forming together a large subcentral subhexagonal spot, which 
sends from its angles six narrow branches, of which two are sutural; one 
posterior, sublinear, reaching the apex, the other (or anterior) wider, bifur¬ 
cate behind the scutellum (which it incloses) to the base; the. four 
remaining branches (two on each elytron) subtransverse ; one above the 
middle, quite transverse, slender, not reaching the margin ; the second 
much behind the middle, subobliquely directed downwards to the margin, 
which it reaches; this central spot with its branches nearly resembles a 
six-branched cross, of which the two sutural ones being divided by the 
suture give four upon each elytron, the spot being also divided by the 
suture, there is a half cross upon each; the branches have between them 
three large marginal black spots ; the first basal, large, obliquely widened 
towards and near the suture beneath the scutellum ; the second much 
smaller, joining the first at the margin, reaching only the middle of the 
