ABSTRACT
Pronotum broader than head; shape subquadrate, excavated in front for reception of head, angles acute; borders strongly margined laterally; surface smooth or punctate; pleural region broad; prosternum broad in front of coxae with intercoxal process broad; procoxal cavities closed behind. Mesosternum subquadrate to transversely subrectangular; mesepimeron not reaching coxae; mesocoxal cavities closed behind. Metasternum somewhat wider than long in most. Legs with trochantins hidden; procoxae flat, globular, separate; mesocoxae globular separate; metacoxae triangular, separate; trochanters triangular, inter-
stitial; femora weakly swollen; tibiae flattened, carinate, apically enlarged and with small apical spurs; tarsal formula 5-5-5, fourth tarsomere small in many, first three tarsomeres more or less broad and pubescent beneath; claws simple. Scutellum subcordate to pentagonal. Elytra entire, apically rounded; striae punctate, or surface smooth; intervals sparsely punctulate, a few smooth or confusedly punctate with large black impressions or small punctures; epipleural fold well developed. Wing has a dark, medial fleck (shagreened oval spot) near distal edge; two closed cells occur, an elongate wedge cell and a triangular radial cell; five veins nearly reach the hind edge of the wing; folding pattern with median area normal; anal lobe sessile.
