"Length 8mm. Body in short oval, very broad, not very convex, bronzed black. Aciculate dorsal surface. Thick pubescence, short and recumbent, relatively dense, accompanied by brushes of strong bristles and curved on the sides of the clypeus and forehead, more long, in bouquets on the sides of the disc of the pronotum in front and behind, in brushes apart and drawn up on the odd elytraux interstries.

Haute Rivière Bleue, around 300m, rain forest on peridotites. "

R.PAULIAN, op.cit.