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behind humeri narrowly brown to apical quarter. Body beneath dark reddish­
brown to fuscous, hoary-gray pubescent, irregularly fulvous maculate; mesosternal
side-pieces traversed by a patch of fulvous or whitish tomentum, and usually with
an irregular, brown vitta which extends posterio-Iaterally over the metasternum
and the metepisterna ; abdomen more densely pubescent laterally with brighter ful­
vous, at least Oil third to -fifth sternites. Legs light to dark reddish-brown, thinly
hoary pubescent; femora above tinged with fulvous; tarsal claw segment conc010r­
ous. Antennae testaceous to fuscous; proximal five segments dark brown pubescent,
with a variable amount of fulvous-white intermingled, especially on bases of fourth
and fifth; rest densely and entirely fulvous-white tomentose.
Head above minutely punctate, a median line extending from occiput to epi­
stoma; front rather broadly concave between antennal tubercles, broad, subquad­
rate, minutely punctate, and with sparse, finc punctures scattered over entire sur­
face; genae vertical, with a few fine punctures; eye with lower lobe elongate-oblong,
slightly exceeding gena in height; antennal tubercles very robust, strongly promi­
nent, on inner side at apex with a short, robust, upright horn, the tip of which is
(lUrved laterally. Pronotum about one-fourth wider than long, sidcs parallel, almost
straight, shallowly cmarginate near base, unarmed; apical and basal tran.sverse
sulci narrow, the latter deep, joining the lateral oblique ones, which are broad and
terminate suddenly at sides; disk basally with a small, oval tubercle at middle, each
side cntirely occupicd by a fiattened tumid area, indistinctly obliquely impressed ;
across base a band of sparse, fine punctures. Scutellum strongly transverse; sides
straight, oblique; apex broadly truncatc, its margin strongly beveled. Elytra with
sides straight, attenuate to apices, which am separately rounded; entire basal half
rather coarsely, densely punctate, behind middle somewhat more finely so, along
suture on apical half a finc, distinct, impressed line; humeri slightly prominent,
anterior margin rounded, oblique, angle with a projccting tubercle. Prosternum
narrow, unarmed, only slightly widened posteriorly. Procoxae globose, distinctly
uncate before; femora very strongly clavate, profcmora robust, others succcssively
morc slender and shorter, profemora on basal quarter transversely rugose anteriorly
and posteriorly; tarsi robust, their three basal segments transverse. Fifth sternite
subequal in length to fourth, apex broadly retusc. Antennac robust, onc and one­
half to nearly twice length of body, si}. 1:h segment attaining elytml apex; fimbriate
,beneath on proximal five segments, densely so on first to third, sparsely on fourth
and fifth; scape rather short., robust, slightly clavate apically, not rugose beneath;
second segment elongate, distinctly longer than wide, at least one-fourth length of
soape, slightly broadenedapic lly; third onc-half agaifi as long as first, feebly bi­
fiexuose, basal curve short, aplcal curve long and gradual; fourth and fifth succes­
sively shorter, rest subequal; eleventh distinctly longer than tenth, apex with a
curved process.
FEMALE. Very little different from male, but having antennal tubercles horned
as in that sex; proeoxae not uncate, with a feeble tubercle anteriorly instead; pro­
femora not rugose; tarsi not robust, ·first segment slightly elongate, second and third
subquadrate; fifth stcrnite one-fourth longer than fourth, apex deeply emarginate,
with a feeble triangular impression; antennae one-half again as long as body, sev­
enth segment attaining elytral apex, scape more elongat.e, nearly attaining middle
of pronotum, less robust; eleventh no longer than tenth, its apex simply tnpered.
LENGTH 12-16.5 mm.; width 4.2-6 mm.