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120 THE TRIBE ONCIDERINI
procoxae subglobose, distinctly Ullcate in male; femora clavate, r"obust; metatibiae
feebly expanded in male. Antennae one and one-half times body length in male,
slightly longer than body in female; scape rather robust, gradually but distinctly
clavate apically, attaining apical third of pronotum; third segment feebly sinunte,
about one-third longer than scare; eleventh slightly longer than tenth in male.
GENOTYPE.-Hesycha bat'ii Jekel.
Alexera harii Jekel
PLATE III, FIGURE 9.
HC8ycha barii Jekel, .Iourn. Ent., 1, 1861, p. 261.
Hywnoma barii Jekel. Lacordaire, Gen. Col., IX, 1872, p. 676.
HypSelomU8 lignicolor Bates, Ann. Nat. Hist., (3), XVI, 1865, p. 169. [New
synonymy.J.
Hypsioma lignicolor Bates. Bates, lac. cit., p. 170.
MALE. Elongate-ovate, rather robust, convex; dark reddish-brown to piceous,
elytra slightly paler; above entirely clothed with fulvous-gray tomentWll, mottled
with dark brown. Head with front almost entirely dark brown, finely vittate later­
ally with fulvous-gray. Pronotum each side with a broad, slightly oblique vitta of
pale yellowish-gray, above whi ch is a broad line of dark brown; disk with irregular,
indistinct lines or maculae of puler pubescence. Scutellum broadly dark brown vit­
tate medially, sides narrowly yellowish-gray. Elytra entirely fu!vous-gray, each
with two arcuate lines of whitish, one of which runs from basal margin at side be­
neath hWllerus obliquely to behind middle halfway to suture, the other nearly con­
tinues the first, lunate, curving first towards suture and then continuing the arc
away from it and almost attaining apex, each elytron with several dark brown
streaks, one oblique, posterior to discal portion of first white line, the others longi­
.tudinal on apical half, and an indistinct, broad, dark band running obliquely from
humerus to suture at middle. Body beneat.h dark reddish-brown, irregularly
clot.hed with hoary and fulvous-gray pubescence; prothorax lateral to coxae with
an oblique band of dark brown; metepisternum with a broad, oblique, dark brown
.band before middle, posterior to which it is white; abdomen entirely clothed with
sparse, fulvous-gray pubescence, each sternite, except basal one, with-Q.-J"ounded
macula of denser pubescence halfway between middle and side margin. Legs dark
brown to fuscous, irregularly clothed with fulvous-gray pubescence; femora some­
what mottled with darker spots ; tarsi thinly gray pubescent, claw segment not
annulate. Antennae dark reddish-brown or fuscous, apax of aach segment only
very slightly paler; entirely clothed with fulvous-gray pubescence, the proximal
segments more distinctly mottled with brown, the bases of the segments beginning
with fourth very narrowly annulate with gray.
Head above minutely punctate, with a median line from occiput to epistorna;
front deeply, but rather broadly, concave between antennal tubercles, sides only
slightly oblique, nearly parallel, densely and finely punctate, although rather roughly
so; genae vertical, oblong, minutely alutaecous, nearly glabrous; eye with lower lobe
vertical, oblong, distinctly narrower below, twice the height of gena; antennal
tubercles weH separated, prominent, apices with a short, robust horn which is bent