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placed, but it is much smaller, being only the size of Crat. luridus, to 
which it has also a certain resemblance. 
Body ferruginous, covered beneath with a light fulvescent pile, 
mixed above with brown, fulvous and flavous, forming spots, lines and 
tessellations. 
Head covered with a dense light flavous pile, adorned with five light 
brown, cuneiform bands, the apex of which reaches the base of the ros¬ 
trum. Eyes large, semiglobose, more extended outwards than in any other 
species of the genus, and very slightly narrowing obliquely the forehead 
in front, this being almost as broad as the rostrum. Rostrum , with 
mandibles somewhat exserted, a little shorter than the head, nearly as long 
as wide ; sides and apex a little rounded; flat, with a longitudinal impres¬ 
sion ; clothed like the head. Antennce ferruginous, pilose, ultimate joint 
of the club ovate, densely fulvous-pubescent. 
Thorax subconic, nearly as long as the basal width ; apex obliquely 
truncate, subangularly prominent at its middle; sides first obliquely and 
straightly dilated to two-thirds of the length, where they form a slightly 
rounded ampliation, then nearly parallel to the base, with the angles acutely 
produced downwards; base sinuate, posterior carina still more sinuate, 
applying exactly to the elytra when the insect is at rest. Disc pulvinate, 
with a depression behind the apex, and another above the middle of the 
base; clothed with a fulvous pile, and adorned with light brown velvet¬ 
like signatures; 1st, four oblong subnavicular, or very elongate-rhomboidal 
at the apex, two a little distant from each other above, and two underneath ; 
they reach at least one-third of the length ; 2nd, four basal subrhomboidal; 
two above more distant from each other, and larger—proportionally much 
broader—than the apical ones, two lateral close to these ; all these signa¬ 
tures thinly encircled with a light flavous pile, forming sinuated rows, 
joining in pairs down the middle of the back. 
Scutellum small, rounded, clothed with light fulvous tomentum. 
Elytra shortly ovate, subparallel; base of each somewhat rounded, not 
broader than the thorax, with the shoulders within the lateral angles 
which are enclosed by those of the thorax; suture depressed; a callosity 
somewhat behind the base between the first and fourth striae; these are 
moderate punctate, the punctures separated; interstices hardly convex ; 
clothed with a light fulvous pile; adorned with light brown velvet-like 
dots,—two basal, very small, in some specimens indistinct, four discoidal, 
one upon the callosity, a second outside of this and a little behind, nearly 
