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"Fuseous, deILSely covered with ochraceous fulvous tomentose ffi9.culae; anten­
nae in male very elonga.te; all cxcept srape chestnut-red; front elevated, quadrate
(above not at all narrowed) ; eyes moderate, elongate, subOl\llar fascia and occipital
line fuscous; frontal barns elongate, separated. Thorax strongly trnnsversc, irregu­
lar, two obtuse tubercles each side. Elytra posteriorly slightly nIlrrowed, slightly
convex, humeri a little promincnt, base sparsely punctate. Length: 10 lines, male.
Chon tales, Nicaragua."
The above is n copy of the original description ; tllC figure is
after Bates.
Hesychotypn fulvoirrorala Thomson
PLATE VI, FlGUlU:: 14.
/schiocelltra julvoirrorata Thomson, Physis, II, 1868, p. 56.
Related to H. macn1,osa bnt distinguished by the large, macular
fascia at middle of elytra latcrally ; pronotal sculpturing slightly
smoother; the eye somewhat broader.
Fnu.LE. Elongate-ovate, robust, elytra com·c.,,; fuscous, elytra dark reddish­
brown ; irregularly hoory and fulvous pubescent. Head irregularly fulvous, a short,
dark brown vitta each side of median line attaining occiput; front brownish, vittate
either sid!) of median lin!l on upper half nnd on each margin with fulvous and hoary.
Pronotum hoary at sides and bas.qlly, disk largely brown, broadly maculate medially
and apically with fuivous. Scute!lum sparsely hoary and brown pubescent. Elytra.
irrorate with bright fuivous, the maculae indefinite in sh.'1pe, more or less cO."l.les­
cent., the interspaces with sparse brown pubescence, at middle with a largo, irregular,
white, macular fascia occupying about one-third of the elytral length, its anterior
margin oblique, the posterior margin deeply deot.:lte, nearly directly transverse.
Body beneat.h and legs dark reddish-brown, sparsely covered with hoary pubes­
cence; metepisternum maculate anteriorly with fulvous; abdomen each side with
two rows of indistinct maculae of denser pubescence: tarsal claw segments gradu­
ally fuscous apically. Antennae fuscous, from third segment paler broadly at base;
sca.pe and apices of following segments brown pubescent, the pale b3scs hoary, till
pubescence sparse.
Head minutely, densely alutaceous, with a median impre:cd line from occiput
nearly to epistoma ; front rather broad, widened slightly at lower margin of eyes,
between antennal tubercles broadly concave, surface very finely, den...ly punctate,
with a large number of coarse puncture.;; below and toward each side, at middle
somewh3t tumid; genae subquadrate, densely, minutely, rather roughly punctate;
eye with lower lobe broadly oblong, large, more than one and one-half times as
high as gena; antennal tubercles moderately prominent, rather robust, widely separated,
at apex: with a silort, acute tooth. Pronotum strongly transverse, one-half
wider than long; sides irregular in outline, constricted at apex ; lateral tubercles
small, obtuse, without n terminal process j apical and basal tmDsverse sulci deep,
nearly straight. the latter coalescent with the lateral oblique ones; disk with an
oval, feebly elevated tubercle at middle, each side strongly tumid, only very india·