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LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELIZABETH S. DILLON 29
coxae in male feebly, obtusely tubercled ; abdomen thinly brown
pubescent, with scattered white hairs ; antennae with third seg­
ment strongly bisinuate, one-fourth longer than first.
MALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, convex ; dark reddish-brown, densely covered
with grayish-fulvous pubescence, mottled indistinctly with brownish. Front mostly
brown pubescent, with grayish and fulvous intermingled. Scutellum brownish
medially, broadly bright fulvous each side. Elytra at base broadly fulvous pube­
scent, thence to apex grayish-brown, the brown at base attaining scutellum and
humerus, the entire brown area sprinkled rather sparsely with small points of
white. Beneath reddish-brown, thinly hoary-gray pubescent medially, broadly
fulvous laterally, with indistinct maculae of brighter fulvous ; abdomen fuscous,
medially thinly gray pubescent, sides comparatively narrowly vittate with bright­
fulvous, except fifth sternite, which is paler and entirely sparsely hoary pubescent.
Legs reddish-brown, sparsely brownish pubescent, with some fulvous patches inter­
spersed ; femora with distinct, single, hoary-gray hairs intermingled ; tibiae medially
more or less distinctly annulate with fulvous ; tarsi usually darker reddish-brown,
entirely thinly hoary pubescent. Antennae dark reddish-brown, densely brown
pubescent ; entire second segment, basal half of third, and bases narrowly of suc­
ceeding segments, grayish-fulvous ; scape fuscous basally, covered with brown and
bright fulvous pubescence, with scattered, single, hoary hairs interspersed.
Head densely, minutely punctate, with a median impressed line from occiput to
epistoma ; front narrowly concave between antennal tubercles, with sparse, shallow,
moderate-sized punctures, especially below middle; genae densely pubescent, ex­
cept toward front, vertical ; eye with lower lobe oblong, vertical, slightly greater
than gena in height ; antennal tubercles prominent, subapproximate, armed at
apex with a broad, robust, short tooth. Pronotum transverse, sides feebly arcuate,
grad'clally narrowed anteriorly, behind middle with a broad, obtuse, slightly ele­
vated tubercle ; apical and basal transverse sulci distinct, rather broad and deep,
the latter joining the lateral oblique sulci, which are shallower ; disk with five strong,
elongate tubercles in a straight line, median one least elevated, extending from
apical sulcus to basal one, lateral ones more or less joined into pairs, the space be­
tween them not deeply impressed ; a few fine punctures across base and on sides
posteriorly. Scutellum strongly transverse; sides arcuate, oblique ; apex feebly
arcuate, notched at middle. Elytra with sides broadly arcuate, gradually and
slightly attenuate to apices, each of which is rounded ; base distinctly gibbose each
side of suture, gibbosity coarsely, not densely granulate-punctate, each with a ridge­
like elevation running to anterior margin of elytra which is studded with three
larger granules, behind gibbose part and between it and humerus finely punctate,
punctures gradually obsolete posteriorly but almost attaining apex ; humerus strongly
projecting, oblique, at angle with a very elongate, large tubercle, behind this and
connecting to it a shining carina about equal in length to the tubercle, then
evanescent ; sides deeply punctate to middle. Prosternum simple. Procoxae
strongly tumid posteriorly, with a small acute tubercle anteriorly ; femora robust,
clavate, profemora with basal half very robust so that the clavation is not so
distinct as in others, above and below transversely rugose ; metatibiae strongly
swollen and densely setose ; protarsi expanded and fimbriate. Fifth abdominal
sternite one-half longer than fourth, apex feebly arcuate. Antennae one-third
longer than body, fimbriate beneath to apex, although rather sparsely so from