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M'M!. Elongatc-{}vate, rnthcr robust, convex; head and pronotum dark brown
10 black, clytrll reddish- to dark brown; cntirely covered with greenish-gray pube-
5oonoo whioh is irregularly varied by pawhes of a gray olive-green ; soutellum with
n narrow, glabrous vitta at middle. Dcnc.'1.th dark brown to fuscous, thinly clothed
with greenish-gray pubescence; met.'\stern\lm .'lnd sternites l.'lternlly with sm.'lll,
indistinct patches of whitish pubescence. Legs fuscous, thinly clothed with green­
ish, grayish, and white pubescence; tarsal claw segment black, greenish-gray
pubescent on basal half, brown apically. Antennae fuscous, scape thinly greenish­
gr:lY pubesoont, on apex with gray olive-green, remaining segmcnts gray pubescent
on basal half, apical half brown.
Head above minutely, densely punctate, with median impressed linc from
oceiput lll'ar[y to episwma; front vcry finely, densely punctate, with scattered,
large punctures ; genae e[ong,1te, finely, densc[y punct.ate, with scattered, large
punctures; eyes with [ower lobe ovate, slightly shorter than genal hjght; antennnl
tubercles subappro}':imate, prominent, not produced at apex. Prollotuill transvere,
base slightly widcr than apex; sides nenrly strnight; apical sulcus curved sharply
at middle, basal one obliquely curved toward apex laterally; disk tri-tubereulate,
median tubercle Sl.lbelong3te 3nd more b3S31; base of disk with few coarse pUllC­
Wre3 ; lateral tubercles [aeking. Scutlclhnn transverse; sides ille3rly st.raight,
oblique; llpex broadly rounded. Elytrtt. with sides llC!lrly strnight and slighUy
tapering to apices which are separately rounded; at ba.se feebly gibbooe on each
eirloon, the gibbm,i:ties elongate and nrcuate, ne..1.rly 3ttaining suture at t.heir
distal portion; entire basal fourth feebly granul.'1te-punctatc, thence with sparse,
co.usc, cleep punctures which become ev:mescent 3pically; humeri strongly pro­
jecting, with :lIIterior margin broadly nrcuate, oblique, posterior margin forming
:> right .111g[e :lntl bearing 3 rounded, prominent tubercle. Prostermun llarrow
between procoxae. Procoxae prominent, only very feebly and obtuscly tubercled
before; profemora broad, feebly clavate, 110t rugose, remaining fcmora morc or less
grarlunlly clav3te 3pically, b3sully ll::trrow ; mel·atibiac rather srongly widened on
apical hnlf; protnrsi broader thnn other. Fifth sternite nearly twice length of
fourth, shallowly emarginate at apex. Antennae about one and one-third times
body length; scape e1ongnte, reaching slightly to uehind middle of pronotum,
feebly, densely punctate, more or [c.ss capitate apically; third segment strongly
llexu05e, about one-third longer th3n scapc.
F}::.tM,E. :M ore robust :1nd less t.:lpcring 3pically than ill male; allte!lnne as
long as or only feebly longer than body; prostcrnum broader between pror.oxe;
protibillc only very feebly dilated ; fifth sternite twite length of fonrth, fringed,
slightly cmarginate and shallowly, t.ransversely, triangularly impressen apically.
LEKGTll 14.5-17 mm.; width 5-7.5 mm.
'l'ype looality.Brazil.
Distribution.Southca8tcrn Brazil.
BRAZIL: 2 $; ; no locality datil; [1 $, 1 2, M.C.Z.; 1 $, A.M.N.fl.].
NOYa Tcutoniu, Deccmber 23, 1938; (F. Plaumann); [L. Lacey] .
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