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HYPSELOMUS Perty
Hypgelomus Perty, Del. Anim. Art., 1830, p. 95. Thomson, Syst. Ceramb., 1864-,
p.391. Lacordaire, Gen. Col., IX, 18i2, p. 687, 669.
Cllltemnutra Thomson, ClllSS.
Ceramb., 1860, p. 113 (ex parte).
Distinguished from all other genera by the presence, in the
single known species, of an elongate, elevated crest at the middle
of the base of each elytron and of a distinct tubercle on the mesocoxae
in both sexes.
Large, elongate-ovate, robust. Head with front elongate, narrowed above; eye
with lower lobe broadly ovate, about equal in height to gena; antennal tubercles
feeble, unarmed, subcontiguous. Pronotum transverse, base wider than apex, unarmed
laterally; discal surface uneven. Elytra distinctly attenuate apically, apices separately
rounded; each elytron at center of base with a long, arcuate, strongly elevated
cres studded along its apex with tubereles or granules; humeri prominent, anterior
margin oblique, feebly arcuate, a. small tubercle at angle. Prosternum widened
behind middle between proeoxae; mesosternum elongate, deeply bilobedly emargin·
ate and expanded laterally at apex. Legs elongate; procox!I.C globose, both sexes
with a feeble, obtuse tubercle anteriorly, in female slightly less distinct, meSOCQxae
with a much broader and stronger tubercle internally; femora clavate, robust,
profemora more rohust in male, rugose in both sexes; metatibiae swollen in both
sexes, more strongly so in male; protarsi somewhat dilated in both male and
female. Antennae as long as body in male, about two--thirds as long in female;
scape slender, arcuate, reaching not quite to middle of pronotum; third segment
subequal to scape, feebly &inuate.
GENOTYPE: Hypselomus cf"istata Perty.
Hypselomus cristat8 Perty
PLATE I, FlQURE 1.
HypHeWmua cristata. Perty, Dol. Anim. Art., 1830, p. 95. Castelnau, Hist. Nat.
Col., II, 1840, p. 482. Lacordaire, Gen. Col., IX, 1872, p. 669. Jekel, Journ.
Ent., I, 1891, p. 259. Heync-Taschclloorg, Exot. Kafern, 1906, p. 243, pI.
37, fig. 33.
CZ-,.temlleslra hmllIlosus Thomson, Qass. Ceramb., 1860, p. 113.
lI.Lu.E. Elongate.ovate, robust, convex; black, ent.irciy covered with dense, pale
fulvous-gray to brown pubescence. Elytra each with an indistinct, inverted V·
shaped fascia, the base of which is placed toward the sides slightly before the
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