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edges, which emit numerous thin yellowish pilose marks on the fuscous 
parts. 
Scutellum moderate, subtriangular, covered with a dense whitish pile. 
Elytra shortly ovate, not twice as long as the thorax, together 
evidently narrower than long; base subtruncate, or slightly sinuated; 
shoulders rather prominent and callose, obtusely acute; sides moderately 
and somewhat roundly narrowed towards the apex, which is obtusely 
rounded in each elytron, sutural angle obtuse; indexed part somewhat 
roundly dilated behind the base, then emarginate in the middle; convex, 
without an apparent sutural depression; slightly punctate-striate; inter¬ 
stices flat, finely transversely rugulose; black; ground covered with a 
fuscous subolivescent pile, adorned with whitish and ochreous markings, 
the whitish ones being—1st, a common basal large spot, encircling the 
scutellum, and having beneath it a small fuscous spot reaching to one- 
third of the length, deeply emarginate outwards, forming on each elytron 
a sort of irregular crescent, the convexity of which is towards the suture; 
2nd, also at the base, two ill-defined short lines between the central spot 
and the shoulders ; 3rd, at the base of the indexed margin an oblong-sub- 
triangular spot, the acute angle of which is at the base behind the 
shoulder; 4th, a common sutural posterior spot irregularly subcordiform, 
having a linear prolongation along the suture to the apex: and the sub- 
ochreous ones being—1st, an irregular small spot between the apex of the 
sutural and marginal marks of the base, connected with the two basal 
lines; 2nd, two connected oblong-subrhombical spots a little behind the 
middle of the elytra, the larger one being nearly half-way between the 
suture and the margin, the other external; 3rd, an apical spot, connected 
at the suture with the prolongation of the posterior white spot, angularly 
produced upwards. 
Pygidium oblong-subconic (nearly half a line in length and one-third 
in its basal width), narrowly subacutely rounded at the apex, oblique, 
slightly convex, finely punctate-rugulose, obscurely rufous, scattered with a 
whitish pile, which is condensed at the apex. 
Body beneath clothed with a whitish pile, very thin and silky on the 
pectus and abdomen. 
Legs moderate, intermediate the shortest and thinnest. Thighs 
clavate, edentate; anterior the longest, posterior the thickest, intermediate 
the shortest, covered with a whitish pile. Tibia sublinear; anterior the 
longest, nearly as long as their thighs; posterior proportionally to the 
