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flatter, all obsoletely punctulate; black, covered with a fulvescent-brown 
pile and two large whitish markings; 1st, on each elytron a subrectangular 
triangle, indistinctly circumscribed, having its longest (or basal) side longi¬ 
tudinally placed outwards from the base at the shoulder (which it partly 
covers) to the middle, following obliquely inwards the undulation of 
the shoulder and the 6th stria from the base to the middle of its length 
where it reaches the 5lh, which it follows towards its posterior angle; from 
this it runs obliquely upwards to the suture at the gibbosity over the 
impression, where it meets the corresponding marking, forming there its 
geometrical apical angle; the figure then varies from the above form, for 
the last side is very irregular, being first transverse, cutting with the cor¬ 
responding mark the gibbosity above the impression, to which it is 
parallel, clothed with a thin fuscous pile, then after this transverse emargi- 
nation it is angularly widened towards the base very near the scutellum? 
encircling the supposed anterior side of the gibbosity ; this is covered on 
its basal half with the brownish pile of the ground, which forms there 
a truncate triangle; 2nd, a common fascia, wide, very obliquely and 
sinuately directed anteriorly from the margin at two-thirds of the length 
upwards to the 2nd stria somewhat behind the middle, then transversely 
cut to the suture, being clothed with a fuscous pile here and there 
condensed in spots, posteriorly confounded with the brown colour of 
the apex: we might suppose indeed this large common patch to be 
an irregular triangle, of which the apical angle is cut away at the suture, 
and the lateral directed and lost beneath the margin: 
Pygidium semiovate, densely clothed with a fulvous long and thick 
pile; middle longitudinally and narrowly impressed. 
Body beneath densely and finely punctulate, covered with a yellowish 
gray pile, thicker and lighter on the sides of the pectus, rarer, thinner and 
subfulvous under the thorax. Thorax beneath obliquely shortened from 
the sides to the middle ; apex nearly regularly circularly eraarginate, with 
a rather broad margin deeply impressed ; base also emarginate, but at 
a distance from the sides ; longitudinally convex, with an impression near 
the base, at first transverse from beneath the coxae to a certain distance from 
the side, but gradually more removed from the base (this being oblique by 
its emargination), it is there angulated, and afterwards obliquely directed 
to the posterior angle. Pectoral laminae narrow. Rings of the abdomen nar¬ 
rowed in their middle, so as to seem more and more arcuately emarginate 
posteriorly, leaving the terminal wider in its middle than its sides; these 
