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LA'YRENCE S. DILLON" <strong>AND</strong> ELIZABETH S. DILLON 17 MALE. Elongate ovate, robust, convex; black, entirely covered with dense, dark brown tomentum. Head with a arnall, white pubescent macula below each eye, another on either side of middle of front, and one below each antennal tubercle. Pronotum with basal margin, a triangular spot at middle of base, and a broad vitta each side, white. Scutellum with lateral and apical margins white. Elytra with a large, triangular macula occupying entire base of each elytron, the entire suture, an irregular, transverse fascia at and behind middle, and another fascia before apex, white. Body beneath black, thinly, dark brown pubescent ; metasternum each side broadly, obliquely vittate with white, and scattered maculae of white on fest of thorax; abdomen medially blnck and shining, not highly polished, however, due to ita thin covering of pubescence, laterally more densely brown pubescent, each sternite maculate there with a rounded, white spot. Legs piceous or black, dark brown pubescent; meso- and mebfemora white maculate anteriorly at apical onefourth; all tibiae broadly white annulate at middle; claw segment of tarsi with basal two-thirds thinly white pubescent. Antennae with scape black, rest very pale reddish, with only apices of segments black; scape and the black portion of each segment covered with hrown puhe:rence, the pale portions sparsely white. Head minutciy, dcnsely punctate, with a median line from occiput extcnding nearly to epistoma; front elongate, very feebly widened below eyes, surface minutciy, densely alutaceous, rather coarsely punctate medially and more cOll.rscly so toward mout.h; genae vertical, minutely, not densely punctate, with a few coarse punctures interspersed ; eye with lower lobe moderate, ovate, vertical, subequnl to gena in height; antennal tubercles prominent, sub-approximate, at apex shortly, robustly dentate. Pronotum transverse, sides straight, narrowcd to apex, unarmed; disk with median line broadly Cflrinulate, each side with a single prominent, transverse tumescence, which is only feebly impressed at middle to indicate t.he usual two tubercles ; lateral sulcus broad, shallow, obsolescent, basal sulcus distinct. Scutellum transverse; sides straight, oblique; apex feebly arcuate, depressed medially. Elytra with sides broadly arcuate, tapering to apices, each of which is ,separately rounded; disk \vith a very strong, prominent humeral crest, extending from humeral angle almost halfway to suture, carinate on apex, gibbosity distinct but not strongly prominent, bnsal half near suture and sides behind humeral crest with scattered, rathor coarse punctures, remainder of surface smooth ; humeri stronp:ly projecting. Prosternum simple. Procoxae globose, anteriorly feebly tubercled; profemora robust, feebly clav'lte, finely, transversely rug03e beneath, other femora mOfC strongly clavatc, the metafemora slender; metatibiae enlarged apcially ; tarsi, especially protarsi, strongly dilated. Fifth st ernite nearly the length of fourth; apex truncate and strongly notched at middle, heavily fringed. Antennae one-third longer than body, fimbriate bencath, much more heavily so at apex of each segment; scape robust, smooth, from middle strongly capitate; third segment sinuous, the apical curve feeble; eleventh shorter than tenth and unmodified. FEMALE. AntennaJ tubercles more remote and unarmed; elytra less tapering apically; profemora a little more slender and clavate ; fifth sternite truncate at apex, triangularly impressed at middle; antennae distinctly shorter than body. LEKGTH 13.5-18 mm.; width 7-9 mm. Type locality.-BraziL Distribntion.-Southern BraziL
18 THE TRIBE ONCIDElllNI BRAZIL: 109; no locality data; (l\1.C.Z.-7; A.M.N.H.-3]. &; Rio de Janeiro ; (C.M.]. HYPSIOMA Serville HlIp.!i0m6 Serville, .4.nn. Soc. Ent. France, IV, 1835, p. 38. Thomson, Class. Ceramb., 1860, p. 115; Syst. Ceramb., 1864, p. 392; Physis, II, 1868, p. 62. Lacordnire, Gen. Col., lX, 1872, p. 668, 675. HypseWmus Bates (non Perty], Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) XVI, 1865, p. III (sep. p. 177). Distinguishing characters are as follows: front elongate, dis tinctly and gradually narrowed above j eye oblong, subequal in beight to gena; pronotum conical, unarmed latenlly ; elytm dis tinctly attenuate apically, basal gibbosity prominent, elongate, with a few granules; humeri projecting, slightly elevated, angle with a rounded tubercle followed by a short carina ; procoxae with a prom· inent tubercle in male, feeble one in female; meta tibiae strongly expanded in male ; antennal tubercles subapPl'oximate but not con tiguous, armed with a short, robust, erect tooth in male, shorter in female. Modernte-sized, elongate-ovate, robust, convex. Head with front elongate, distinctly and gradually narrowed above; eye oblong or oblong-ovate, subcqual to gena, slightly longer or shorter tllan it; geM elongate, vertical; antennal tubercles prominent, robust, subapproximate, in male usually with a short, robust, vertical tooth. Pronotum transverse, conical; sides unarmed; dis.k usually with five tubercles, occaSiOll(llly ollly three. Scutelhlm transverse, often notched at apex. Elytra. distinctly attenuate apically, :lpices s
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