This diagnosis is an attempt to express in something approaching an exact manner the distinction of the flattened from the arched or convex head.
Scrobes are the depressions in which the antennae are inserted.
There are unfortunately a few exceptions in the case of this character.
See Pungur, Termes. Füzetek, 1877, p. 223.
Brunner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxiv. 1874, p. 288.