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margined each side with fu!vous·gray; vertex above with a faint, dark brown vitta
either side of median line, converging anteriorly, Pronotum with fulvous-gray and
dark brown variegated pubescence. Scutellum mediany dark brown, rather broadly
fulvous·gray on margins. Elytra on basal quarter dark brown, with severnl fine
vittae of fulvons-gray on basal fifth, thence fulvous-gray to apex, sometimes paler
on apical quarter, with scattered, very small, round, dark brown macuiae, these
denser on apical quarter; just behind middle each elytron medially with a small,
dark, oval macula, on the anterior tip of which is a minute, whitish or yellowish
spot. Body beneath fuscous, with dark brown and fulvous-gray variegated Ilubescence.
Legs and antennae dark reddish-brown, the former heavily, the latter thinly,
variegated with dark brown and fulvous-gray pubescence.
Head above with a mooian impred line from occiput to epistoma; front
tl3.rrow between antennal tubercles, minutcly, densely punctate, with a few scattered,
coarse punctures; genac vcrtie.:d; eye with lower lobe broailly oval, one and
one-half times the height of gena; antennal tubercles prominent, produced at apex
into a short, slender, acute horn, dire