The head is acutely conical and the face strongly oblique. The fastigium of the vertex and temporal foveolae are plane. The fastigial furrow is present. The prosternal process is tubercle-like or collar-like. Hind femur is slender and the lower basal lobe is usually longer than upper one. In this family some species have aposematic colors like Poekilocerus bufonius hieroglyphicus (photo).