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Body black, with the upper side rather densely covered with a light 
grayish tomentum, much thinner and finer—not velvet-like—than on the 
first-mentioned species, and of the same constitution as on the latter; the 
under part is only scattered with this pile. 
Head in proportion to the body, much shorter and narrower than in 
Crat. tigris and Crat. tapirus , with the front nearly as long as broad, sub¬ 
quadrate, grayish tomentous, with fulvous-ochraceous pile round the eyes ; 
two black spots on the vertex, in a transverse row, and one on the middle 
of the front, which is there impressed: these spots are formed with 
a thicker subholosericeous pile, sometimes partly denudate, showing 
the black shining ground of the derma. Eyes irregularly rounded, widely 
truncate in front, rather convex, lateral, black. Rostrum with mandibles 
somewhat exserted, hardly shorter than the head and front; but without 
those organs a third shorter than these and its own width ; sides sub¬ 
parallel, apex almost straightly truncate, clothed like the head, with its 
margins fulvous or ochreous ; a moderate sized black spot like that on 
the forehead, also impressed. Anlennce black; club elongate, broad, 
flattened, joints, separate. 
Thorax transverse, subconic; apex a third narrower than the base, 
which is subtruncate, or very slightly sinuous; sides nearly straight or hardly 
rounded; convex, but somewhat flattened at the middle of the base ; 
clothed, like the head, with ten spots or maculae formed with a black 
velvet-like tomentum, sometimes here and there denudate: four are sub- 
quadrangularly placed on the middle of the disc, two near the apex, not 
far from each other, two others a little behind the middle of the length, 
irregularly rounded or ovate, sometimes subquadrate; six other spots 
forming at each side of the disc a row of three, the rows parallel, with the 
basal spot more inwards than the others, the second nearly lateral, and 
the apical one much smaller, exactly lateral, and scarcely seen from 
above. 1 
Scutellum very small, punctiform. 
Elytra subparallel, oblong-subquadrate, convex, with a depression 
along the suture, and a thick high callosity behind the base, extending be¬ 
tween the 1st and 3rd striae, from which the interstice between the 2nd and 
1 There are, moreover, two basal spots, more or less distinct, connected, 
transverse, laying on the posterior carina. 
