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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
brown pilose. Eyes not so large as in the latter, more rounded, but larger 
and more prominent than in the former. Antenna having their funiculus 
more slender than in Crat. thoracicus, having the same proportions 
of thickness as in Crat. lunatus; rufous, with the two anterior joints of 
the club darker, and the third or ultimate light fulvous tomentous. 
Thorax subconic, proportionally broader and shorter than in these 
species, being evidently a fourth shorter than the basal width; apex 
widely rounded; sides obliquely ampliate to the base, a little rounded 
behind the middle ; base sinuous, with the posterior carina still more 
sinuate, applying to the elytra, when at rest; its posterior angles are very 
acutely produced backwards, enclosing those of the elytra, whence it is 
directed forwards along the sides to the middle, where it subabruptly 
ceases. Disc pulvinate, depressed behind and also along the middle, with 
a thin deep sulcation, dividing the gibbosity (the top of which is placed 
above the middle) into two parts: ground-clothing light brown, mixed 
with small flavescent dots and some fuscous or blackish spots; sojne 
of these large, especially two behind the apex, not more distant from each 
other than from the side, and the others basal, one in the middle, smaller 
than the others, sometimes obsolete, and one on each side, about midway 
between the middle and the side; there is also a whitish longitudinal line 
extending from the middle of the apex, reaching at least the third of the 
length, and there diverging abruptly and subtransversely, each branch by 
a slight obliquity, running down to the middle of the length about midway 
between the middle and the side. 
Scutellum rather small, subsemicircular, or rather shortly transversely 
ovate, whitish piled. 
Elytra shortly ovate, subparallel; base of each very obtusely rounded, 
not broader than the thorax ; shoulders within, but close to, the posterior 
angles of the latter; sides scarcely dilated from the base to the two-fifths, 
thence also very slightly narrowed to four-fifths, afterwards conjointly 
subsemicircularly rounded to the apex, where they are shortly and slightly 
emarginate, when seen backwards; the ordinary subbasal tubercle obsolete, 
regularly punctate-striate, with the alternate interstices convex, the inner¬ 
most stronger; a slight deplanation along the suture; densely covered with 
a light brown pile, nearly uniform on the flat interstices, tessellated with 
alternate flavous or whitish and dark fuscous dots or short lines on the con¬ 
vex ones ; the innermost convex interstice (between the 2nd and 3rd striae) 
adorned a little above the middle with a fuscous spot, larger than the 
