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12 THE TRIBE ONCIDERINI
GENOTYPE : Lachnia subcincta Serville, by monotypy.
From the illustration in Waterhouse, the genus appears to be
close to J amesia in body form and in shape and size of the eye.
From it, it is distinct in the seape being robust, strongly clavate,
third antennal segment straight, nearly twice as long as first ;
humeri with anteriOl' mal'gin strongly oblique, angle with a distinct
tubercle j front elongate, feebly narrowed above j eye with
lower lobe nearly three times genal height j genae transverse.
Lochnia subcincta Serville
Lac1mia subcincta Serville, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1835, p. 64. WaterhoW!c, Aid
Identif. Ins., I, 1880, p. 13, pI. 5.
"Six lines long. Body brown, slightly shining, covered in part with short
pubescence, variegated with brown, yellow, and ashy. Head with groove above
that extends onto front and two protubernnce5 bearing [Lotennac. Pronotwn
margined posteriorly, feebly so before, irregular, slightly convex, spotted with
black and tawny. Elytra irregular and punctate, especially at base, with a gray,
irregular, transverse band at middle, about one-fourth elytra in width, dentate
posteriorly, interrupted at suture. Sternum covered with gray down. Antennae
trown, with variegated down and tawny hairs. Legs brown, with tawny down.
. Cayenne?" (Translation of the original description.).
LESBATES Dillon and Dillon, gen. nov.
1.'he principal characteristics of this genus are : head with
front elongate, conve..x when viewed from side, sides slightly narrowed
below eyes j eye with lower lobe very small, about one-third
as tall as gena, subquadrate ; antennae with scape strongly clavate
from base, rather short, only attaining :apical fourth of pro­
Dotum, third segment bisiDUOUS, one-half longer than scape in
male, one-fourth longer than scape in female ; pl'onotum conical ;
elytra with basal gibbosities distinct, disk at base finely punctate ;
and procoxae uncote in male.
Moderate in size, elongate-ovate, robust. Head with front elongate, broad,
slightly convex when viewed from side, sides slightly narrowed below eye; gena
very elongate, narrow; eye with lower lobe subquadrate, small, about one-third
the height of gena ; llntennnl tubercles prominent, subapproximate, in male
with short, acute tccth at apex, in female with a very short, obtuse projection
thcre. Pronotum transversc, subconical, sides unarmed; disk with five tubercles,
two of which are marc or less transverse. Scutellum transverse. Elytra with