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GENOTYPE.-Hypselomtts rodens Bates.
KEy ro SP1:cms
1. Elytra at base seriatcJy punctate, with a narrow, arcuate, p31e yellowish fascia. 2.
Elytra at base irregularly punctate, at middle with a broad, white
fascia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Icri8sa.
2. Front entirely dusky except for a sm:dl pnJo macula each side of middle; clyLra
with median palc fascia very narrow, both its anterior and posterior bordrs
smooth, a small white macula in the tawny area of apex ...... rodens ceres.
Front. mottled yellow and dark brown; elytrnl median pale fascia broader, its
posterior border deeply dentate, without a distinct. macula apieally
....................................................... rodens rOde)lll.
Euthima rodcns rodens Bates
PL.-I.TE v, FIGURE 1.
J/ypsewmus rodc1I3 Bates, Ann. Nat. Hist., (3), XVI, 1865, p. 112.
Hypsioma rodem Bates, loc. cit., p. 170.
MALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, convex; black. Head above mottled with
grayish.yellow and dusky tomcntum, the gntyish-yellow preaomin3ting; front in­
cluding genr-e, with same tomentum as above, but the dusky slightly predominnnt"
Pronotum dark brown and grayish-yellow mottled, frequently ochr:\CeDus laterally
inste!'ld of gray-yelloW. Scutellum entircly grayish-yellow pubescent, at bnse some·
times dusky. Elytra. dark brown pubescent, basally with streaks of ochraceous,
especially toward suure, at middle with !\ modcr3tely wide, whitish or yellowish
fascia, which is morc or less arcuate, i t