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128 THE TRIBE ONCIDERINr
Type locality.-Brazil.
Distribution.-Southeastern Brazil.
BRAZIL: ; Han$.'l Humboldt, Santa. Catharina, November, 1940; (A. Maller) ; [L.
Lacy.]. 2 2; Rio de Janeiro; [C.M.] . ; Nova Friburgo, R. J.; [M.C.Z.],
No LOCALtTY DATA : 5; [lVI.C.Z.],
Glypthaga xylina Bates
PLAn: V, FIGURE 13.
HesrJcM xylina Bates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Rist., (3), XVI, 1865, p. 172.
lschiocentra xylina Bates. Lacordaire, Gen. Col., IX, 1872, p. 674.
RatIwr elongate and morc slender than most members of the
tribe'; elyt1'6 with a number of arcuate, more or less parallel vittae
of whitish and brown ; antennae in male elongate, slender, apical
segments paler ; and fifth sternite nearly entirely pale.
MALE. Elongate-Qblong, cylindrical, moderately robust, el1rn subconvex;
fuscous or blnck, all over fulvous and grayish-brown variegated. Front sometimes
entirely grayish-brown pubescent. Pronotum above lateral tubercle with II glabrous,
narrow, subarcuate vitta from just behind middle at base. Scutellum dark brown
pubescent, with a pale fulvous vitta one-third its width at middle. Elytra at middle
of base with a narrow, d:uk bro\VD vitta (a continuation of one on pronotum)
which becomes forked very Ilear base and ends on bas.'ll one-fifth, the outer prong
of the fork being the shorter; either side along suture II I1!lrrow, black vittn from
scutellum to apex, from either humerus an irregular, arcuate, whitish vitta, much
wider at humeri, apices not touching suture, slightly lateral to this a narrow, black,
arcuate vitta which does not attain either humeri or apices, on extreme lateral edge
II rather broad, indistinct, whitish vitta in the middle onc.half. Beneath fwcous or
black, dark grayish-brown pubescent; mesosternum narrowly and metasternum
broadly, fulvous and grayish variegated; abdomen with sternites somewhat indis
tinctly streaked with fulvous and grayish; and at extreme lateral edge with irregular,
elongate, fulvous and whitish maculae, an indistinct row of smaller ones more toward
middle,' fifth stcrnite broadly vittate with whitish-fulvous leaving only a very
narrow line dark grayish-brown medially. Legs fuscous or black, variegated with
dense, whitish and fulvous pubescence. Antennae with seape dark reddish-brown to
fuscous, remaining segments paler; scape with whitish and fulvous pubescence,
third segment with basal half grayish, apical haH grayisb-brown, each succeeding
segmcnt with same color pubescence but the gray portion becoming increasingly
broader.
Head above with a median impressed line from occiput to near middle of front;
front slightly transverse, attenuate just below lower lobe of eyes, disk finely alu­
,taceous, with scattered, coarse, deep punctures, these slightly more 6umerous laterally,
between antennni tubercles feebly concave; genne elongate, much narrower
above, surface finely alutaceous, with a few, coarse, deep punctures; eye with lower
lobe oblong-ovnte, about one-fourth longer than gena; antennal tubercles only mod-