Head, thorax, and elytra black or dark brown, underside dark brown to black; legs and

antennae dark brown. Head: Broad and convex, clypeus moderately produced and wide.

Eyes large, round, facets distinct. Surface distinctly alutaceous and minutely but

uniformly punctate. Clypeus wide and short. Genae not visible from above, slightly

explanate when viewed laterally. Dorsal surface alutaceous and finely punctured.

Antenna with 11 antennomeres including a 3-segmented club. Club large, only slightly

smaller than height of the eye, flat and distinctly separated from funicle. First and second

club antennomeres wider than long, terminal club antennomere about as long as wide.

Margin smooth between club antennomeres 1 and 2, but terminal club antennomere

clearly much narrower than club antennomere 2 (Fig. 5-3). Antennomere 3 shorter than 4

and 5 combined. Pronotum: Alutaceous and punctuate. Strongly convex, lateral margins

curved; anterior angles more narrowly arcuate than posterior angles. Scutellum: Very

small, alutaceous. Elytra: Uniform width narrowing at the apical 1/5. Strongly convex,

sides slightly sinuous and apices round, length shorter than combined width (30:39).

Punctation ending just before apices. Median margin and apices of elytra bordered.

Underside: Metasternum alutaceous, roughly punctured, and clothed in long coarse hairs.

Abdominal sternites alutaceous and punctuate with long coarse hairs thinly covering the

surface. Legs: All tibiae slightly but distinctly curved and dilated toward the apex.

Protibiae with short hairs along the outer margin. Meso- and metatibiae with long, stiff

hairs along the outer margin. All femora glossy, wide, flattened and sparsely covered

with short hairs. Pro- and mesofemora about the same width throughout their length.

Metafemora expanded in the middle. Four tarsomeres, claw tarsomere as long or almost

as long as 2 preceding tarsomeres. Median lobe: Sides parallel until converging sharply