Closely allied and generally similar to
bivittatus, differing as follows. The size is on the average a little smaller, surface more shining, the alutaceous sculpture often nearly lacking (normally quite distinct in
bivittatus), elytra each with a single broad black vitta, the lateral edge and epipleuron black around the lobe nearly to base; prothorax rufous or rufo-testaceous with side margins paler and often with three small more or less distinct darker to blackish basal spots; eyes separated in the male by about two and one-half and in the female by rather more than three times the length of the basal joint of the antennae, the distance in the female, however, not quite as great as the vertical length of the eye; the two outer series of elytral punctures less regular than in
bivittatus's body beneath black, the apex of the last ventral, on each side of the middle, pale, the sides of the body usually not pale; tibiae sometimes in part blackish, the tarsi more evidently so than in
bivittatus.
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