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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
the thorax, hut narrower than its middle, strongly margined ; obliquely 
dilated at the shoulders, -which are subcallose, being there wider than the 
middle of the thorax; sides subparallel to two-thirds of the length, then 
roundly narrowed towards the apex, which is conjointly widely and obtusely 
rounded, subtruncate when observed from above, but subemarginate when 
seen from the apex; rather convex transversely, but longitudinally a little 
elevated behind the base, depressed along the suture to the middle, then 
slightly convex to two-thirds, from which part they obliquely descend in a 
curve to the apex; punctate-striate: the 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 striae ap¬ 
proximating in pairs, especially anteriorly, where they are sinuously rejected 
outwards by the duplication of the 1st and a sub-hasal elevation lying 
between the 1st and 5th ; interstices nearly flat, obsoletely and finely rugu- 
lose; light rufous or dark ferruginous; irregularly covered with a yellowish 
fulvous pile, leaving irregular fuscous markings, as follows: 1st, the basal 
elevation of each elytron, continued irregularly and obliquely towards the 
suture, where it meets its opposite, leaving between them behind the scu- 
tellum a fulvous patch; 2nd, a rather wide transverse band in the middle 
reaching the suture; 3rd, a narrower band, posterior, placed upon the 
declivity, reaching also the suture ; 4th, many fuscous spots on the remaining 
fulvous parts, more or less distinct: all these fuscous markings are formed 
of a ground pile of that colour. 
Pygidium transverse, subsemicircular, convex, deflexed, very slightly 
punctulate; dark rufous, glossy, having a very distant thin short incum¬ 
bent fulvous pile. 
Body beneath covered with a yellowish fulvous pile (except in 
the middle of the abdomen). Thorax coarsely punctate-subrugose. Pectus 
coarsely punctate. Abdomen very finely punctulate, glossy, dark brown, 
covered with a minute thin silky yellowish pile. 
Legs rufous, with the thighs darker, covered with a yellowish fulvous 
pile: middle of the thighs, base of the tibiae, terminal joint of the tarsi and 
claws denudate. 
