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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Thorax transverse (length about 1 lin., basal width If lin., apical 
width nearly 1 lin.), subconic; base sinuated, with the posterior carina near 
to it; posterior angles obtuse; sides shortly obliquely dilated to the carina 
(which is there roundly continued upwards but abruptly terminated before 
the middle), then somewhat strangulated above the rounded angle of the 
latter, afterwards they run obliquely straight to the apex, which is truncate ; 
upper side convex, covered with a short dense fuscous pile; adorned with 
numerous maculae or spots, most of them minute, subpunctiform, of yellow- 
ochreous pile, here and there agglomerate, especially,—1st, in an apical 
margin, attenuated in the middle (emitting there a short longitudinal line), 
more dilated behind under the eyes, and joining the indexed side ; 2nd, a 
longitudinal basal line in the middle, short, bifurcate from the middle to 
the tip, which does not reach to the middle of the length; underneath 
densely covered with the same yellow pile, here and there leaving fuscous 
denudations. 
Scutellum moderate sized, triangular, clothed with yellow pile. 
Elytra shortly ovate, more than twice the length of the thorax, 
and together rather narrower than long; base sinuated, as wide as the 
thorax; shoulders rounded, callose ; sides scarcely dilated to the middle, 
then narrowed nearly in the same manner towards the apex, being poste¬ 
riorly a little narrower than at the base, and widely obtuse; apex of each 
elytron rounded ; convex, impressed along the suture, and raised between 
the 2nd and 4th striae; this elevation from the base, where it is subcallose, 
to behind the middle, is rather widely convex and indicated, it then 
becomes obsolete; shallowly and thinly striate-subpunctate; interstices 
(the aforesaid excepted) flat; ground covered with a fuscous pile, adorned 
with numerous yellow-ochreous small spots, here and there wanting, so as 
to leave several fuscous maculae, of which the best indicated are—1st, one 
encircling the scutellum ; 2nd, one on each shoulder ; 3rd, one somewhat 
behind the middle of each elytron, upon the elevation ; 4th, another near 
the apex of each; 5tb, two near the margin, one behind the shoulder, less 
circumscribed, another at two-thirds of the length ; the yellow spots are 
also here and there condensed, principally widely at the base and between 
the median and subapical fuscous maculae, and the suture of each elytron is 
adorned with a row of approximate small spots of a more whitish hue. 
Pygidium semielliptic, perpendicular; fuscous, with yellow spots, 
as on the elytra. 
Body beneath also fuscous, but the thorax and pectus are almost 
