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Hesychotypa liturata Bates
PLATE VI, FIGURE 5.
Hesycha liturata Bates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Rist., (3), XVI, 1865, p. 172.
Ischiocentra liturata Bates. Lacordaire, Gen. Col., IX, 1872, p. 674.
Hesycha humilis Dejean, Cat. Col., 1837, p. 370. [nom. nud.].
Ischiocentra humilis Thomson, Physis, II, 1868, p. 57.
Somewhat like H. li1'issa but the elytral sculpturing is smooth,
lacking the definite ridges j antennae sborter in both sexes j elytral
pale markings more diffused; and antennal horns in male much
shorter, less robust, vertical, straight.
1fALE. Elongate-ovate, rather robust, subcylindrical, above subdepressed;
dark reddish-brown to fuscous, elytra slightly paler, entirely covered with dense
pubescence. Head brown pubescent, with It pale, grayish vitta at middle and sev­
eral indistinct, irregular ones behind eaeh eye, variable in number; eye outlined
posteriorly with rosy-gray, the marginal line below running as a stripe down the
genae to mouth. Pronotum brown pubescent, vittate with palc rose and hoary
gray as follows : median one narrow, on apical half, one each side of middle broad,
slightly oblique, lateral aile very broad, covering most of side, slightly oblique.
Scutellum brown, basal angles whitish. Elytra hoary and brown Variegated, striped
basally with rosy to middle or beyond, at apical third of sides many angulated lines
of white e;\iend obliquely forward to before middle, but do not attain suture, be­
hind this line a broad band of brown similar in shape and extent to it; apical por­
tion similar to basal part, the rosy stripes coalescing apically, sides below humeri
entirely brown to beyond middle. Body beneath fuscous, hoary pube.::cent medially,
laterally rose and brown variegated, the latter color predominRting on extreme sides ;
abdomen largely roseate, with two series of small pale maculae each side, onc
row along margin, one submedian, fifth sternite mostly hoary, Legs fuscous, cov­
ered with brown, hoary, and rose variegated pubesccnce; t,arsai claw segment not
paler basally. Antennae dark reddish-brown, brown pubescent, variegated with
hoary pubescence, segments beginning with fifth narrowly annulate at base with
gray.
Head minutely, densely punctate, with a median line from occiput to epistoma;
front almost as broad as high, broadly but strongly concave between antennal
tubercles, minutely, densely punctate and with a number of fme punctures especi­
ally laterally; genae slightly vertical, minutely alutaceous; eye with lower lobe
oblong-ovate, exceeding the genal height by one-t.hird; antennal tubercles robust,
prominent, widely separated, at a.pex a short robust tooth, almost as broad as long.
Pronotum very strongly transverse, sides irregular, narrower at apex than at base,
lateral tubercle low, broad, with a robust, conical process; apical and basal trans­
verse sulci broad, not well marked, the latter especially poorly defmed, coalescent
with the deep lateral oblique sulci; disk with a low median tubercle, each side trans­
versely and strongly tumid, impressed here and there, across base a number of
moderate--sized punctures. Scutellum transverse, sides strongly oblique, straight;
apex broadly rounded, notched and impressed at middle. Elytra with sides gradu-