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LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELIZABETH S. DILLON 155
one-half again length of fourth, at apex feebly emarginate and foobly triangularly
impressed; profemora feebly rugose on basal third; procoxae with very feeble
tubercle; :mtennac about one and one-fourth times body length; scnpc less robust,
not grooved basally.
LENGTH 12.5·16.5 mm.; width 4.5·6.5 mm.
Holotype.-Male; Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, November;
[U.S.N.M. number 57203].
.Llllotype.-Female j Chapada forest, M. G., Brazil, October;
[U.S.N.M.).
Pam.types.-3 males, 4 females; topotypic, October;
Female; Chapada; near Cuyaba, M. G., Brazil ; [C.M.].
Cbapada forest, Brazil, November; [U.S.N.M.].
Hesyehotypa aeropa Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
PLATE VI, FIGURE 4.
[C.M.).
Male ;
Closely allied to H. lirissa but the median fascia of elytra. is
much more distinct, the fascial dentations deeper j third and fourth
antennal segments not swollen ; elytral pale, pubescent streaks
much heavier ; horn of antennal tubercles of male less robust,
nearly straight, only very feebly incurved.
MALE. Elongate-ovalo, subcylindrical, elytrn subconvcx; hoad and pronotum
dark brown, elytra paler. Head dark brown pubescent, with five pale !lshy vittae
as follows: one at middle, one either side of middle more or less arcuate, one behind
isthmus of eye, oblique, front with scattered patches of ashy and ochraceous pubes­
cenoe, head on sides morc or less indistinctly ashy. Pronotum dark brown pubes­
cent, at middle with a nllTrow median ashy vitta only on apical two-thirds, either
side of middle a wider vitta feebly oblique but not joined basally, laterally cithlm.
side with a vel'y broad ashy vitta, Slightly oblique, the three median vittae some­
times t{)uched with ochraeeous. Scutellum medially broadly, dark brown, laterally
narrowly ashy. Elytra dark brown pubescent, on basal third and a.pical third with
few very narrow lines of ochraceous, these usually broadly outlined in ashy, those
on apical third marc or less forked, a. narrow, distinct, whitish fascia at middle,
oblique from just behind middle laterally to ncar but not attaining suture just
before mi ddle, with two deep, distinct dentations either side, the brown pubescence
forming It broad fascia, with no lines of colorcd pubescence on posterior border of
whltish fascia. Beneath dark brown, moderately pubescent with ashy, sterna lat­
erally, broadly dark brown pubescent, metastcrnwn laterally touched with ocbra­
ceous; sternites with six rows of small, dense, ashy maculae, which are sometimes
slightly ochrnceous, the rows either side of middle usually indistinct and outermost
row later3.1. Legs dark brown or piceous, clothed with mixed dark brown and ashy
pube3cence, the former predominant ; femora at extreme apex and at apical third