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8 THE TRIBE ONCIDERINI
Jamesia phileta Dillon and Dillon, spec, nov.
PLATE I, FIGURE 4.
Most closely resembles J. papulenta but the basal granules extend
to the middle of elytra (instead of only to the basal third), are
much larger, and fewer in number; rounded dark brown maculae
on apical half of elytra are much larger and nearly coalescent j
antennae with fourth, sixth, and eighth segments broadly and distinctly
white.
MALE. 'Elongate-ovate, robust, convex; fuscous, covered with brownish-gray
pubeseence, heavily mottled with dark brown. Front very narrowly margined with
fulvous-gray. Scutellum dark brown, entirely margined, except at base, with
Iulvous-gray. Elytra on basal half fulvous-gray, rest paler, with many, large,
dark brown pubescent maculae, some more {)f less coalescent, outlined with fulvolls,
apically becoming smaller. Body beneath fuseous, pale grayish-brown pubescent;
abdomen laterally on each sternire with an indistinct, round, dark brown macula,
rather broadly margined with fulvous; metasternum laterally toward apex with a
small, rounded, dark brown macula, margined with fulvous . . Legs and antennae
fuscous, clothed 'with pale grayish-brown pubescence, the latter with basal two­
tbirds of fourt,h segment, basal half of siJo.1:h, ba