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proximate to the base, following its sinuations, but somewhat nearer and 
angulated in the middle, angularly directed upwards at the sides, but termi¬ 
nating shortly over, not reaching one-third of the lateral length ; upper 
side most convex, especially transversally, subpulvinate near the apex ; 
longitudinally finely strigulose; under side densely clothed with a whitish 
gray pile, emitting, on the upper part, 1st, an apical margin wide in front, 
becoming sublinear in the middle; 2nd, a basal wide shortened branch, 
finishing at one-third of the width, connected angularly with the apical 
margin at its origin, nearly at the anterior third of the length, obliquely 
directed inwards for two-thirds, then dilated, rounded anteriorly, cut down¬ 
wards nearly straight to the base, which it covers laterally, forming a thick 
crochet or quaver ; also a basal central whitish line is observable, arising 
from the middle of the carina, ascending to the middle of the length 
where it stops. The remainder of the upper side is clothed with short 
black dull pile, nearly resembling a squat human trunk, of which the neck 
and the lower part as far as the waist appear cut down, and the arms 
reduced to a stump. 
Scutellum wide, triangular, black, clothed with a black pile. 
Elytra shortly ovate-subquadrate, nearly twice as long as the thorax, 
and together rather narrower than long; base of each obtusely rounded, 
but much more deflexed to the suture than to the shoulders, which are ob¬ 
liquely rounded, callose, and rather wider than the thorax; sides slightly 
roundly dilated to about one-third part of the length, nearly straight 
to two-thirds, then also roundly narrowed towards the apex, being pos¬ 
teriorly evidently narrower than at the base; apex of each elytron obtusely 
rounded; sutural angle obtuse and rounded ; inflected margin roundly 
dilated rather beneath the base, then emarginate and sensibly narrowed 
towards the apex, the inflection having become obsolete above the latter; 
if transversally measured from the widened inflected part to the suture, 
they are certainly there twice as wide as above the apex; very con¬ 
vex, punctate-striate: striae posteriorly 10 in number, but the subsutural 
(or 1st) and the submarginal (or 10th) are duplicate anteriorly, the former 
having its two branches separated to the base, the latter united again 
behind the base, its branch (interior) being very short, apparently required 
by the extension of the inflected part; the four innermost striae are ante¬ 
riorly obliquely rejected outwards by the duplication of the 1st, and 5th to 
the 8th are close together under the shoulder, where they stop; interstices 
very finely and densely punctate-alutaceous, all flat, the four innermost 
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