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sides moderately attenuate, apices separately rounded; basal gibbosities moderately
elevated; disk on basal third finely granulate-Ilunctate or simply punctate; humeri
variable, simply projecting or crested. Prosrernwn simple, widened posteriorly;
mesosterna! process broad, short, sides nearly straight, apex deeply emarginate.
Legs moderate in length; proeoxae globose, strongly uncate in male, not (or
very feebly) tuberculate in femnle; femora clavate apically; meta tibiae not
expanded ; protarsi dilated in male, slightly so in female. Antennae one and one­
half to one and two-thirds times as long as body in male, at least as long as
body in female; scape short, reaching only to apical fourth of pronotum, strongly
clavate from base; third segment bi.sinuous, one-half longer than scape in male,
one-fourth longer in female; rest gradually shorter. eleventh slightly longer than
tenth in male, in female rest much shortened from fourth.
GENOTYPE : Lamia acromii Dalman.
KEY TO SPECIES
Humeri crested; antennae with bllsal two-thirds of all segments from third testaooous;
tarsal claw segments at base testaceQU3 . . . . . . ... . . . . . ........ aeromii.
Humeri projecting but uncrested; antennae with basal t·wo-third! of segments from
third reddish-brown; tarsal claw segments basally reddish-brown ..... cari88ima.
Lesbates aeromii Dalman
PLATt: III, FICURE 13.
Lamia acromu Dalman, Analecta Ent., 1823, p. 70.
Hyptioma acromii Dalman. Aurivillius, Cat. Coleoptorum, pars 74, 1923, p. 343.
Hyptioma omoplata Lacordaire, Gen. Col., IX, 1872, p. 676, note 1, pI. 104, fig. 5.
:MALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, convex; reddish-brown or dark reddish-brown,
densely covered with gray-fulvous pubescence, somewhat mottled with brown, and
marked with white as follows: Head with occiput irregularly white, front almost
completely so, as is entire head occasionally. Pronotum white laterally, medially,
and along base, sometimes with the fuivous very strongly reduced' or wanting.
Scutellum more or less broadly margined with white. Elytra 'more or less white at
base, around scutellum, and along suture, with a broad, oblique, somewhat inter­
rupted fascia at middle. Body beneath dark reddish-brown to fuscous, entirely
covered with dense, white pubescence, except at middle of last three abdominal
starnites, which a.re only thinly pubescent, apex of fifth brown. Legs reddish­
brown to dark reddish-brown, thinly white pubescent; tarsi with claw segment
pale rosy on basal half. Antennae pale rosy, scape and apical third of each
segment fuscous; entirely covered with thin whitish pubescence, except OIl dark
apices, where it is brown pubescent; scape with a broad, brownish band around
the broadest portion before apex.
Head minutely, densely punctate, with a fine median line from occiput to epistomn;
front ciongate, broad, narrowed feebly below eyes, finely, densely punctate; genae
very elongate, vertical, finely and densely punctate, with a few coarse punctures
interspersed; eye with lower lobe small, subquadr!1te, only slightly longer than