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Hesycha consimilis Thomson
He3ycha comimilis Thomsen, Physis, II, 1868, p. 63.
"Elongate, brown, covered with gray pubescence. Head with some sparse
punctures; antennal segments from third pale, apices brown; horn black. Pro­
thorax pubescent, Illmost impunctate. Elytra elongate, base strongly, then smoothly
and sparsely punctate, with six vague fuscous maculae, arranged in three series;
apices rounded. Abdomen and legs pubescent. Length 10-12 mm.; width 4-4.5 mm.
Brazil". (Translation of original description).
Hesycha paupercula Thomson
PLATE v, FIGURE 15.
Hesvcha paupercuk Thomson, Pbysis, II, 1868, p. 62.
Distinguished by its small size; the immaculate upper surface;
fifth sternite largely ochraceous j and male with antennae not very
elongate.
MALE. Elongate-ovate, moderately robust, subcylindrical; eJytra subconvex;
head and pronotum fuseous, elytra dark reddish-brown; entirely fulvous-gray pub­
escent. He3.d with a short, brown vitta either side of middle, reaching only to ver­
tex; sides of bead and pronotum broadly brown laterally, and extreme basCl of
elytrn with the pubescence much condensed and alightly paler. Scutellum with a
narrow, whitish vitta medially. Beneath dark reddish-brown, fulvous-gray pubes­
cent, mesosternal side-pieces, metasternum, and metepisterna slightly brownish ;
sternites except fifth at extreme lateral edge with a small, irregular, whitish macula,
fifth broadly whiw each side for iUi entire length. Legs dark reddish-brown, flll­
vous-gray pubescent; tarsi pale. Antennae reddish-brown, basal quarter of fourth
seglllent and basal halves of succeeding segments very pale, entirely covered with
pale fulvous-gray pubescence.
Head above minutely a!utaceous, with :l median impressed line from occiput
to near episterna on front; front feebly elongate, slightly wider above, surface finely
alutaceous, with a few coarse, deep punctures laterally; genae elongate, finely alu­
tacoous; eye with lower lobe ovate, slightly shorter than gena; antennal tubercles
prominent, with a short, robust, subacute process at apex, which is curved pos­
teriorly. Prenotum transverse, sides straight, apex about one-third nturower than
base; apical transverse sulcus nearly straight, basal one oblique laterally; disk at
middle with It feeble, elongate tubercle reaching from basal sulcus to middle, either
side of middle and slight.ly more apical a brQ'\d, feebly elevated tubercle; lateral
tubercles wanting but in their usual poition a. cluster of punctate granules. Scutel­
lum transverse; sides straight, oblique; apex subtruneate. Elytra with sides
straight, feebly attenuate; apices separately rounded; base of each elytron with a
feeble, broad gibbosity bordered on the outer margin with a wide, deep sulcus; disk
very coarsely and closely punctate, punctures not much finer llpically; humeri
prominent, anterior margin arcuate, angle with n very obtuse tubercle. Pro­
sternum only gradually widened behind middle of procoxae; mesosternal process