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INSECTA SAUNDERS1ANA. 
varieties of which the ground is ferruginous or rufous; others are pitchy 
black. Schonherr having had incomplete specimens, and having also 
omitted various particularities, I think it necessary to add the following:— 
Antenna slender, reaching to the base of the thorax; funiculus 
8-jointed, pale rufous or testaceous. Club large, somewhat shorter than 
the funiculus, 3-articulate; joints separate; 1st triangular, dark fuscous or 
pitchy ; 2nd shorter, transverse, subconic, light fuscous; terminal the 
longest, shortly ovate-acute, pale yellow or whitish. 
Thorax nearly subconic, wider than long; base bisinuate, with the 
middle and the angles acutely produced; posterior carina following the 
outline of the base, and running very close to it, applied to the elytra 
when the insect is at rest; sides roundly angustate to the apex, which is 
roundly produced in the middle, and nearly twice as narrow as the base; 
convex, subgibbous in the middle, transversely impressed behind the apex 
above the gibbosity, covered with fuscous pile, upon which there is a rather 
thick light fulvous pile, subflavous and more dense round the apex ; 
adorned with three basal fuscous spots, one central linear, the others 
at each side of this, broad at the base; subconically elongate ; to these 
are subjoined three others placed above them in the middle, sublinear; 
they form together three interrupted lines more nearly approaching above ; 
between the two spots in the middle is a subcentral pale yellow point; an 
apical whitish line having on each side a pale fuscous macula, and 
an oblique line also whitish or yellowish, placed above each of the lateral 
lines in the middle, are also observable. 
Elytra widely and very obtusely rounded at the base; convex, with a 
slight depression along the suture; having a subbasal callosity upon which 
the 1st stria is duplicated, and the 2nd and 3rd obliquely driven outwards; 
covered with a fulvous yellowish pile; tessellated with fuscous and pale 
yellow or whitish pubescence, alternately placed upon the alternate inter¬ 
stices and the suture: of these markings two elongate fuscous ma culae or 
lineolae, between the 2nd and 3rd and the 4tli and 5th striae, and the fus¬ 
cous part of the basal callosity are more conspicuous and placed in a 
square. When the elytra are rubbed, the tessellation is very obsolete, the 
ground-colour becomes grayish, and leaves the subbasal callosities and the 
place of the central fuscous lines denuded, forming four black spots. 
