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LAWRENCE S. DILLON .o\ND ELIZABETH S. DILLON 105
Pronotum transverse, base slightly wider than apex, conical, unarmed laterally;
disk with five tubercles. Scutellum transverse. Elytra with Bides nea.rly straight,
gradually n'ttenuate apiclllly, apices separately rounded ; disk with a feeble bnsal
gibbosity, on bnsal half coarsely and seriately granulate-punctate, punctures behind
middle finer and confused; humeri prominent, angle with a. large, rounded tubercle.
Prosternum narrow, simple; mesosternal process broad, sides emarginnte, apex bi­
lobedly ema.rginate. Legs wanting; procoxae (female) subglobose, with an obtuse
tubercle. Antenna.e (female) as long as body; scape slender, . capirtate on apical
one-third, reaching to just before middle of pronotum; third I:!lightly bisinuate,
about as long as first.
GENOTYPE.-Hyl1.ts dubius Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
HyIus dubiu9 Dillon and DilloD, spec. nov.
PLATE Ill, FIGURE 10.
Most nearly resembles E1dhima "odens, especiaUy in being se­
riately punctate on entire basal balf of elytra. But, in tIle present
case, the anterior punctures bear granules j the pl'onotum is UD­
armed laterally, conical in shape ; the antennae have the scape slen­
der, capitate on apical one-tbird, and tlle third segment no longer
tllEln first.
FEMALE. Elongate-ovate, rather robust, dark reddish-brown or {uscous, dense­
ly covered with bright fulvous pubescence, slightly mottled with dark brown. Pro­
notum each side of disk with a large, oval macula of dark brown that covera the
tubercles, on hind angles lin indi=:tinct vitta of fulvous. Scutellum largely brownish
pubescent, toward edges becoming fulvous. Elytra with broWn pubescence in and
behind the basal pUllctures, forming broken, Darrow strips, behind middle with .!l.
number of short, irregular, broad, coalescent vittac of tho same color, leaving Il
strongly oblique, curved, narrow fascia of fulvous at middle, this runs from center
of side margin, ascends onto disk, whel'e it bends 8Uddenly apical!y and continues to
apiclli one-third of suture. Body beneath reddish-brown, densely fulvous pubescent;
abdomen nearly fuscous, covered with very ahorl, brown pubescence, laterally in­
distinctly vittate with fulvous, the vittae much widened towards apex. Antennae
fuscous, basal two-fiftllS of each segment beginning with fourth pale rosy; dark
brown pubescent, pale bases hoary, much of scape and bns..'l.l two-thirds of third
segment covered w;th grayish-fulvous.
Head minutely,. densely punctate, the median imprCS5ed line extending from
occiput to epistorna; front very narrow but not t{lpering above, narrowly concave
between antenna! tubercles, minut-e.ly punctate; genae feebly verticn.l, minutely
punctate, with sparse, fine punctures interspersed; eye with lower lobe voluminous,
broadly oblong, exceeding by two times the height of gena; antennal tubercles
robust, prominent, well separated, unarmed at apex. Pronotum strongly trnns·
verse, sides straight, narrowing to apex, unarmed; apical transverse sulcus broad
nnd shallow, basal one feeble, coalescent with Internl oblique ones; disk with five
more or less rounded tubercles, tho latera! ones most distinct, median one feeblest
and situated basally. Scutellum transverse, triangular, apex broad and rounded.