Description. Male. Form: Elongate oval; contractile; strongly convex dorsally.

Length: 1.2-1.3 mm (measured from apex of the clypeus to apex of elytra); width: 0.85-

0.95 mm (measured at base of elytra). Color: Head, thorax, elytra and underside black,

lateral margin of pronotum and apical margin of elytra yellowish and translucent; legs

and antennae dark brown or black. Head: Broad and convex, clypeus wide and

produced. Eyes comparatively small, oblong with internal margins distinct. Genae not

quite visible from above and slightly explanate. Dorsal surface smooth, under high

magnification distinctly alutaceous with fine punctation. Antennae 11-segmented

including a club with 3 antennomeres; club large and about same size as or larger than

eye. Club flat and distinctly separate from funicle and with a distinctly serrated margin.

First and second club antennomeres wider than long, terminal club antennomere longer

than wide, apically rounded and quite setose (Fig. 4-30). Third antennomere shorter than

antennomeres 4 and 5 combined. Pronotum: Strongly convex and glossy; anterior angle

more narrowly arcuate than posterior. Surface finely punctate and alutaceous.

Scutellum: Triangular with straight or slightly convex margins. Elytra: Uniform width

narrowing at the apical 1/5. Strongly convex, sides almost parallel, apices rounded, length

somewhat shorter than combined width (30:38). Very sparsely punctate and distinctly

alutaceous, punctation ending before the base of elytra, smooth at sides and base.

Median margin and apex of elytra bordered. Apices of elytra with distinct striations (Fig.

4-35). Underside: Metasternum extremely alutaceous and roughly punctate, and clothed

in long coarse hairs. Abdominal sternites alutaceous and punctate with long coarse hairs

thinly covering the surface. Legs: All femora glossy, broad, flattened and sparsely

covered with short hairs. Pro- and mesofemora about the same width from end to end.