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Oblong-cuneiform, strongly, convex and polished throughout, red-brown to black, almost sculptureless above; beak arcuate, rather closely punctulate, as long as the prothorax(cf)or head and prothorax (9), the latter two-fifths wider than long, inflated, the sides broadly arcuate, becoming parallel posteriorly, more rounded and converging anteriorly to the subtubulate apex, which is three- sevenths as wide as the base, the latter transverse and with an abrupt rounded median lobe; punctures extremely minute and sparse, the sides and inferior surface feebly, obliquely rugulose as usual; series of fine punctures along the base evident; scutellum small, flat, ogival, slightly transverse; elytra acutely ovoidal, scarcely two-fifths longer than wide,not quite as wide as the prothorax and nearly three-fifths longer, the humeral callus rather large, prominently rounded; surface undulated;stria; smooth, deep but fine; interstitial punctures scarcely traceable atany part; under surface feebly, the abdomen strongly, shining, the latter sparsely punctate; femora rugosely and densely punctate, the anterior acutely denticulate beneath.
Length Ccf(9) 2.5-3.0 mm.; width 1.15-1.5 mm.
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