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124 THE TRIBE ONCIDERINI
FEMALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, sulx:ylindrical; fuscous, entirely covered
with silverygray pubescence, minutely variegated with fulvous or deep ochraceow,
finely mottJed with brown; eye outlined posteriorly with denser pubescence. Elytra
each with a triangular patch of brown, which is distinct when viewed from some
angies, indistinct from others, commencing at lateral margin before humerus, extending
obliquely across humeral angle and disk to near sutm:e behind middle,
traversed by aeveral longitudinal lines of fuivous and gray, posteriorly bordered by
a small, elongate, white and fulvous macula. Body beneath fuscous, silvery-gray
pubescent, morc or less variegated with fulvous; prothorax on sides behind coxae
with 11 brown area that extends obliquely and posteriorly cnw base of mctepisternum;
abdomen on middle of third and fourth sternites broadly brown, the rest
hoary and fulvous, variegated witb brown, the lateral margiIl5 pa.le and a row of
indistinct, pale maculae each side between mugin and middle. Legs fuseous, silvery-gray
pubescent, tinged with brown and fulvous; tarsal daw segment very
indistinctly paler at base, nearly uniformly fuscous. Antennae fUSCOllS, covered
with brown, silvery-gray, and fulvous pubescence, segments four, six, eight, find ten
with basal half, five, seven, nine, and eleven with base (and tip of eleventh) narrowly,
pale rosy. pale sections entircly hoary pubescent.
Sculpturing, shape, and structure of all parts exactly as in sternalis with the
e.xceptioll that the elytra have the humeri less strongly oblique, the angle with a
larger tubercle; and the prosternum is entirely simple, lacking any trace of a transverse
process.
LENGTH 13 mm.; width 5.6 mm.
Holotype.-Femalej Hamburg Farm, Reventazon, at Jight j (E.
Limon) ; [U.S.N.M. number 57210J.
Sternycha paupera Bates
PLATE IX, FIGURE 10.
Glypatlwga paupera Bates, BioI. Cenk-Amer., Col., v, supp!., 1885, p. 366.
Differs from the two preceding species in the smaller size and
more elongate form of the body j pronotum with sides distinctly
arcuate; elytrn coarsely punctate on base, without a lateral, brown,
triangular patch, but with several longitudinal glabrous lines ; and
fifth stel'llite largely brown pubescent.
MALE. Elongatc-ovate, robust, tapering posteriorly, elytra deftexed posteriorly;
fuscous, rather thinly covered with hoary pubescence, variegated and mottled
with dark fulvoll3, tinged irregularly with brown, on elytra somewhat strigose, and
with whitish streaks behind middle and on apex. Body beneath fuscous, hoarygray
pubescent, tinged irregularly with fulvous; prothorax at extreme sides 00liquely
whitish, then above and behind procoxal angulntion with a dark brown patch
that extends obliquely across mesosternal sidepies to base of metepisternum and
onto sides of elytra; abdomen variegated with hoary, fulvous, and brown, with four
rows of narrow, elongated, white maculae, one on lateral margins and one each side
between margin and middle. Legs dark reddish-brown, covered with hoary and