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LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELJ7.ABE1'H S. DILLON 173
1'ype locality.-Chontalcs, Nicaragua.
D·istrib1ttion.-Nicaragua to Costa Rica.
COSTA RlC. : S!; Hamburg Farm, 8t:1. Clara Province, September 28, 1936; (Nevermann)
; [U.s.N.M.].
Hesychotypa cedcstes Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
PLATE VII, PIGURE 2.
Similar to H. heraldica but the elytral fascia is oblique from hu·
meri posteriorly to suture ; abdomen on each side of 6l'st sternite
with a very large, glabrous macula ; the third segment is much
shorter and more strongly curved than in other members of the
genus.
FEMALE. Elongo.te-ovate, robust, subcylindrical, elytra subeonvex; Ilead and
pronotum fuscous, clytm dark brown. Head and pronotum gray and fulvous varie­
gated pubescent; head on occiput with two dark brown vittan, one either side of
middle, converging on vertc,x and extending only to the antennal tubercles, head
laterally dark brown. Pronotum with three indistinct dark brown vittne one at
middle, becoming bright fulvous on npieal half, one either side of middle, morc
lateral, nnd slightly oblique; sides below lateral tubercle, dark brown. Scutellum
dark brown, lateral margins gray and fulvollil varieg:ltcd. Elytra with gray, d:lrk
browll, and fuh'ous pubescence, v:lriegatcd; a rather wide, indistinctly limited, ob­
lique, dark brown vitt:!. all each elytran from humeri to suture, bordered on its pos­
terior side by a slightly narrower, gray And fulvous variegated vitta; apical one­
third morc or less mottled with d:lrk brown pubescence and gray and fulvous varie­
gated. Beneath dark rcddish·brown, gray and fulvous variegated, metasternum,
metepisterna and mesosternal side pieces more or less dark brown; sternites one to
four with n row of slUall irregular whitish maeulne either side of middle, first sternite
either side with a large morc or less glabrous area; fifth sternite with grny pubes­
cence predominating making it appear much paler than the others. Legs dark
reddish-brown, gray and fulvous and dark brown variegated. Antennae with scape
piceous, remaining segments dark reddish-brown; senpe fulvous, brown and gray
variegated pubescent; remaining segments dark brown pubescent, basal half of third,
basal quarter of four Rnd five and basal half of rcIllilining segments gray pubescent.
Head above finely alutaceous; a median impressed line from occiput to epi­
stoma; front feebly transverse, sides straight, feebly oblique to epistomn; surface
very finely densely punctate; genae very transverse, finely alutaceous; eye with
lower lobe oblong-ovate, about two and one-half times genal height; antennal tu­
bercles prominent, widely separated, only very feebly, obtusely produced internally.
PrOllotum trnnsversc; sides straight; base and apex subequal in width ; apical trans­
verse sulcus straight, basal O[le obfique laterally; disk either side of middle just be­
hind apical sulcus with a broad, feebly elevated tubercle; lateral tubercles moderate,
obtusely produced; base of disk and laleral tubercles with a few punctate granules.
Scutellum transverse; sides straight, oblique; apex subtruneate. Elytra with sides
straight, attenuate very feebly; apices each rounded ; base of each elytron with tl