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122 l'B!:: TRI:BE ONClDERIl),"l
Small, ciongatc-ovnte, robust, subcylindricai ; fuscous, covered with dull colored
pubescence. Bead with front feebly transverse; eye with lower lobe elongate-ovate,
distinctly longer than gena; antcnnni tubercles feeble, slightly produced at apex in
male, feebly so in female. Pronotum strongly transverse, two-thirds again as wide
p.s long; laterally with a. very feeble tubercle behind middle; apex narrower than
base; disk only slightly uneven. Scutellum transverse. Elytra with sides nearly
pUr:l.Ucl to api.cal ODc-tl\irdj apil!e! separately roundedj disk at base ratber I!oarsc\),
punctate, not granulate; humeri only slightly prominent, the anterior margin
strongly :Hcuate, angle with a feeble tubercle. Prosternum simple or with a fine
tranverse ridge at middle between coxae; mesosternum at apex subtruncate, an­
teriorly a large, prominent tubercle. Fifth sternite in male apically retuse, in
female much longer than fourth, apex broadly arcuate, and with a transverse im­
pression. Legs rather short; procoxae tumid posteriorly, unarmed in both sexes ;
femora robust, strongly clavate, rugose ·bru;ally in both sexes, but more strongly so
in male; protarsi dilated in male. Antennae as long as body, slightly longer in
lllflic, sparsely fimbriate beneath to apex; scapc moderately robust in male, more
slender in female, arcuate, feebly clavate from base, not at all rugosc; third seg­
ment longer than scape, feebly sinuate; fourth equal to .seape, rest gradually
shorter.
GENOTYPE.Glypthaga paupera Bates.
KEY TO SP£ClE8
1. Prosternum with a transversc median process . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . sternalis.
Prosternum simple, without a process . . . . '" ........ '" ................. 2.
2. Abdominal fifth sternite entirely pale pubescent; elytral punctation fine
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . approximata.
Abdominal fifth sterllite largely brown pubescent; elytral punctatioll coarse
..... ' ... ... .. . .. . .. . . . ... .. ... .. . .. ... . .. . .. ... . . .. . .. . .... paupera.
Sternycha sternalis Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
PLATE IX, FIGUru,: 9.
Very distinct from other members of the tribe in having both
the mesosternum and prosternum armed, the former bearing a
forward-pl'ojecting tubercle, the latter with a strong transverse
process as in some of the Loch1naeocles. In general appearance,
it resembles certain of the Ataxiini.
FEMALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, subcylindrical; fuscous, entirely covered with
silvery-gray and rn::hraceous variegated pubescence, mottled with brown; eye out
lined with denser pUbllce. Elytra each with an indefinite, triangular patch of
brown which commences at side margin below and before humerus, extends ob­
liquely across humeml angle almost to suture iust behind middle, the posterior
border irregular, reaching sides at apical one-third, the whole less distinct posteriorly
than before, interrupted by several lines of variegated pubescence and including at
hind margin, towards sides of disk, a small, clongate, white macula more or less