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140 THE TRIBE ONCIDERINI
Sulpitus lilla Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
PLATE I, FIGURE 12.
MALE. Elongate-ovate, rather robust ; subcylindrical; elytra subeonvex; bead,
pronotum, and eiytra reddish-brown, with brownish-yellow pubescence; pronotuID
with indistinct p:ttches of grayish-yellow pubescence especially on elevated areas.
Scutellum brownish-yellow, gray-yellow vittate laterally, medially narrowly glabrous.
Elytrs at very b3SC and behind basal fourth with patches of same pubescence,
those behind basal lourth very elongate and numerous. Beneath reddish-brown,
grayish-yellow pubescent, interspersed with small, glabrous patcbes; on abdomen
pubescence condcnsOO lIlterally, forming a rather indistinct vitta either side. Legs
d.'lrk reddish-brown, clothed with gray-yellow pubescence, and with interspersed
glabrous areas ; femora with an indistinct band near middle and II. spot at apex
brownish; tibiae with small, elongate macula basally of same color. Antennae dark
brown, gray-yellow pubescent; scape at apex with n large, brown macula; third
segment with apical third dark brown; remaining segments with apical half dark
brown.
Head above finely, densely punctate, vertex with several large, coarse punctures,
a median impres...'