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LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELIZABETH S. DILLON 111
brown or glabrous points. Head with front and genae sparsely white pubescent,
the fonner at sides margined with ochraceous. Pronotum largely ochracoous, basal
balf mostly white. Scutellum glabrous at middle, rest tmnly ochraceous pubescent,
the margins touched with white. Elytra covered with ochr3ceous and white pubes·
cence, mottled irregularly with dark brown, before middle an indistinct b3nd of thi s
s.1me color, behind this a distinet band of white, running from n tUe li before middle
of sides to just behind middle of suture and traversed by several ochr3ccous vittae,
suture largely white, in many places on elytra the pubescence is arranged to form
more or less distinct vittae. Body beneath dark reddish brown, sparsely white
pubescent, varieg3ted slightly with ochraccous ; abdominal sternites one to four
more or less margined with ochracoous on apices, especially laterally, but without
distinct maculae of ally sort. Legs reddish-brown, sparsely white and ochraceous
pubescent; tarsal claw segment with bas9.l half yellowish, covered with pubescence,
apical half brown, with dark brown pubescence. Antennae dark reddish-brown,
bases of segments from fourth pale reddish (third segment basally slightly paler th:m
aiJically) ; dark brown pubescent, pale bases sparscly white pubescent; proximal
three segments variegated with ochraceous and whitc.
Head minutely, densely alutaceous, with a median impressed line from occiput
to epistorna; front as wide above as below, sides feebly arcuate, betwoon antennal
tubercles feebly concave, minute1y aiutaceous, impunctnte; genae elongate, vertical,
finely and sparsely punct.ate; eye witb lower lobe oblong-ovate, small, betwoon three­
fifths and two-fifths the height of gcna; antennal tubercles prominent, robust, well­
separated, not anned at ape.x. Pronotum strongly transverse, nearly twice as wide
as long, sides feebly wi dened from base to beforo middle, then narrowed to apex,
which is distinctly narrower than base, unarmed; npic..'1l trullSverse sulcus obsolete,
visible only latcmlly, ba;:al one broad, shallow, terminating in a more or lCS3 distinct
fovea cach side, lateral oblique sulci feeble; disk entirely tumid, without visible
tubercles, finely, sparsely punctate. Scutellum transverse; sides nearly straight,
oblique; apex brOl1dly rounded. Elytra only slightly narrowed to apices, which are
separately rounded; disk coarsely, densely punct·atc to slightly beyond middle,
thence punctUr03 flfle aDd obsolescent to apex; humeri prominent, anterior margin
rounded, slightly oblique, angle not tubereulatc but with two carinae, the uppennost
of these more distinct, ascending, then running posteriorly to just beyond middle
(sometimes obsoletely extended behind this point), the lower one distinct for a short
distance, then interrupted by some coarse punctures, after which it continues Jess
distinctly almost 00 apex; sides below humeri more cO:J.rscly punctate than disk,
with a trace of a. third carina present. Presternum rather brond, widened gradu­
ally behind. Procoxae tumid posteriorly, unarmed before; femora clavate, profemora
not rugose. Fifth sternite one :J.nd two·t-hirds times the length of the fourth, apex
broadly emarginate, disk with a. deep, oval impression at middle. Antennae sub·
equal to body in length, with sparse, long, fringing hairs beneath to apex; scape
arcuate, rather robust, not quite attaining middle of pronotll:lll, elavate from basal
third, densely punctate, no at all rugosc; third segment one-quarter longer than
first, strongly sinuate; fourth equal to first, rest gradually shorter.
LENGTH 10-11 rom.; width 4-4.5 IDlD.
Type locality.-Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Distribution.-Southeastern Brazil and Paraguay.