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ceivable; lateral margin very thin and acute, not reaching the eye, then 
subangulate, following its emargination beneath with a narrow interval, 
and forming the posterior margin of the antennal groove. Labrum ferru¬ 
ginous. Mandibles black. Palpi rufous ; the labial lighter. Labium and 
maxillae yellow. Antennae pitchy-brown, basal joints subglabrous, glossy ; 
the two terminal ones of the funiculus less glossy, tomentose. Club 
thickly covered with a fulvous tomentosity, much lighter at the tip. 
Thorax scarcely longer than wide ; apex widely and obtusely rounded, 
slightly emarginate in the middle ; sides rather strangulated behind 
the apex, then abruptly rounded to the middle, afterwards somewhat nar¬ 
rowed to the base, which is truncate ; upper side convex, punctate like the 
head; pitchy; the ground covered with a dark fuscous pile, here and there 
wanting, leaving glossy intervals; scattered with a light fulvous tomen¬ 
tosity forming nebulous spots and maculae, of which an apical, a basal, and 
two transversely placed in the middle of the disc, resembling a rhombical 
figure, are the largest and most apparent. 
Scutellum transverse, semicircular, densely covered with a thin gray¬ 
ish pile. 
Elytra subparallel, more than twice the length of the thorax; base 
truncate, marginate, very slightly wider than the base of the thorax i 
shoulders subangular, subcallose; sides subparallel from the base to 
behind the middle, then roundly narrowed, with the apex of each obtusely 
rounded; rather convex; punctate-striate, with the innermost (first) stria 
duplicated anteriorly, pushing the other striae obliquely outwards ; inter¬ 
stices flat, finely punctulate; pitchy; ground covered with a dark fuscous 
pile, with light fulvous marks, namely, 1st, a basal irregular fascia 
not reaching the suture, running obliquely under the shoulder towards the 
margin, sending from its middle behind a branch obliquely directed to the 
suture, joining the corresponding branch, and leaving a common basal fus¬ 
cous patch round the scutellum; 2nd, a subcentral transverse fascia not 
reaching the suture; 3rd, an apical spot; 4th, several small punctiform 
spots on the middle of each elytron. 
Pygidium transverse, shortly semicircular, perpendicular, rather con¬ 
vex, punctulate, covered with a fulvous pile, more or less wanting on the 
middle. 
Body beneath dark brown-rufous, covered with a thin silky grayish 
pile ; thorax and pectus having strong deep distant punctures, irregularly 
