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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
3rd striae is elevated, convex and continued to the two-thirds, and limiting 
the sutural depression ; their base is subtruncate, slightly sinuous, thinly 
margined ; shoulders raised, callose, suboblique, very slightly widening the 
elytra beyond the posterior angles of the thorax; slightly and thinly 
punctate-striate, except the three innermost rows, of which the punctures 
are larger, deeper, more distant, especially from the base to the middle ; 
interstices flat, except the one already mentioned and that lying between 
the 1st and 2nd striae, from one-third to two-thirds of the length • 
clothed with a thin short light ashy-gray pile, rarer on the dorsal de¬ 
pression ; adorned with velvet-like black maculae, sometimes more or less 
denudate: fourteen in number on each elytron (except the subbasal and 
humeral callosities, which are denudate) ; one basal above the callosity ; 
three marginal equally distant (the first suhhumeral, oblong — sometimes 
small, punctiform—the third at the middle of the length); six dorsal, one 
on the outside of and close to the callosity; a second behind and inside of 
this, consequently behind the callosity and close to the raised interstice; a 
third inside of and between the second and third submarginal ones, 
forming with them a triangle; finally, three others triangularly placed, one 
on the middle of the disc, one subsutural and another lateral, both on the 
same transverse row, behind the former. Besides these, three posterior ones 
are observable above the declivity, in a transverse row, (one of which is 
subsutural and one lateral, the other midway from these), also a fourth is 
placed behind the ante-apical callosity, which is not denudate; these four 
spots are smaller than the others. 
Pygidium semiovate, subperpendicular; clothed, like the elytra, with 
two basal black spots, almost connected. 
Body beneath denudate along the middle, black, obsoletely punctate. 
Pectus adorned at its sides with an ochreous pile and four black spots, two 
marginal and two on the inside of these, in some specimens not neatly cir¬ 
cumscribed, and more or less connected upon rubbed specimens ; these spots 
are partly more strongly punctate than the other parts. Abdomen having 
also its sides, and the ultimate ring entirely, clothed with a nice thick 
ochreous pile, mixed inside with grayish, leaving at the base of each ring 
a black spot, and another inside of this, but at the posterior part forming 
two alternate rows. 
Legs black ; apex of the thighs, a ring on the middle of the tibiae and 
the first joint of the tarsi clothed with a silky light ochreous pile. 
I have seen six specimens of this remarkable species. 
