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slightly elongate, sides oblique ; humeral carina suddenly con­
stricted, thence fine for the remainder of its length ; elytral pale
fascia. not crossed by yellowish lines, as well as in the other gen­
eric traits. From t"odens it is very distinct in elytral coloration
and in being irregularly, not seriately, punctate on base of elytra.
MALE. Elongate-ovatc, robust, 5ubcylindric:ll, clytra subconvex; head and
pronotum piceous, elytra dark brown or dark reddisb-brown. Head above pale
grayish-yellow pubescent, with seattercd, very small, round, brown maculae, these
somewhat confluent on vertex and behind posterior margin of lower lobe of eycs;
front gray-yellow pubescent, at middle with a transverse macula of gray, remainder
of surface with few small, rounded, brown maculae. Pronotum gmy-yellow pubescent,
with a. large, grayish macula at middle, which is much nearer b.1Se than apex,
remainder of surface with many, small, round, brown maculae, more or less coalescent.
Scutellum gray-yellow pubesceut, with a large macula of dark brown at
middle. Elytm deeper gray-yellow pubescent., extreme base and a. broad fascia at
middle which is oblique anteriorly, grayish or white, remainder of surface with scattered
patches of dark brown pubescenc, apical quarter with much white pubescence
interspersed. Beneath durk reddish-brown, whitish pubescent, with small, scattered,
glabrous areas; metasternum Dnrrowiy gray-yellow laterally; each stemite, except
fifth, laterally with a medium-sized, irregular, glabrous macula the posterior margin
of which is gray-yellow, sometimes continued ncross the apical margin of each segment
except fifth; fifth with a transverse, irregular, glabrous area. medially. Legs
dark reddish-brown, thinly gray pubescent, with small, glabrous patch interspersed
and indistinct touches of gray-yellow on femora; claw segment of tarsi very
pale on basal half. Antennae dark reddish-brown, bases of fourth, fifth, and sixth
segments very pale (remainder missing); thinly clothed with pale gray and with
seattered, small patches of dark brown pubescence.
Rend above minutely alutaceous, witb a median impressed line from occiput to
near epistoma; front widened somewhat below eyes, surface finely alutaceous; genae
elongate, sparsely pubescent, surface finely, densely punctnte; eye with lower lobe
oblong, subequal to gena in length; antennal tubercles distant, prominent, produced
at apex into a short, robust, obtuse process, directed upward and only slighUy inward.
Pronotum transverse, base OlllY slightly wider than apex; sides feebly arcuate,
lateral tubercles feebly elevated; a basal and an apical sulcus, apical very
shallow, basal oblique laterally; disk with surface tumid but smooth, base nnd lateral
tubercles with setigerous punctate-granules. Elytra with sides straight, very feebly
attenuate; apices separately rounded; e:Lch elytron at base with a broad, feebly
elevated, more or less arcuate gibbosity, tbe outer margin of which is outlined by a
broad, decp sulcus which beoomes broadest at posterior end of gibbosity; entire
ba.sal third with close·se, coarse punctures, remainder of elytra nearly impunctate;
humeri prominent, anterior margin nearly straight, not tubercled at !lngle, the carina
extending posteriorly, suddenly constricted shortly behind angle, fine to middle of
elytra. Prosternum gradually widened behind middle; mesosternal process feebly
cmarginate meditilly at apex; fifth sternite about one-third again as long tlS fourth,
at apex subtruncate. Proeoxae globose, unanned; profernora robust, gradually
clavate, rugose above and below, remaining surface alutaceoUii; meso- and metafemora
less robust and more abruptly clavate; met.'ltibiae strongly dilated on apical