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LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELIZABETH S. DlLLON 33
Holotype.-Male j Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Octoberj [C.M.].
Allotype.-Female; topotypic, October j [C.M.].
Hypsiomn nesiope Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
PLATE II, )."ICURE 9.
Elytra basally with punctures well spaced, distinct, sides with
a broad, grayish-fulvous vitta from humerus to near apex, attenuate
posteriorly ; humeri not tuberculate; metatibiae and metafemora
distinctly annulate; procoxae in male with a distinct, robust
tubercle ; antennae with seape capitate, robust, third segment robust,
only very slightly longer than first ; abdomen medially
sparsely brown pubescent.
':IALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, subcylindrical, elytra convo:-.: ; black or piceous;
head gray-fulvous pubesccnt with four vittac of clark brown-one either side of
middle, widest at ba!>e and converging between antennal tubercles, and tl. DIlrrow
one posterior to lower lobe of each eye slightly oblique ; front and gentle nearly
entirely dark brown p\lbescent; pronotum gray-fulvous pubescent, basally at middle
with a BDall, more or less elongate-ovate Illflcula and either side of tbis a short
vitta only attaining middle, both dark brown, remainder of diak more or less
mottled with smnll, confluent, rounded, dark brown maClllae. Scutellum grayfulvous
pubescent, with a dark brown vitta about one-third its width nt middle
not attaining apex. Elytra gr!ly-fulyous pubescent on 00>'31 fifth and along lateral
margin, here becoming attenuate posteriorly, nfter middle broken into m all maculae
to apex, rem[l.inder of elytra dark brown pubescent mott.]ed rather finely with
grny-fulvous, this marc noticeable apic.111y. Body beneath with sterna dark
reddish-brown, broadly gray-fulvous pubesccnt at sides, at middle narrowly gray
puue.'jccnt ; abdomen piceous, wit,h a broad, gmyish-fulvolli vitt.a laterally of about
equal width on all e:-.:cept fifth sternite, where it is oilly a small macuh, middle
gbbrou.'l, shiniug, with only a few scattered, gray hairs. Legs piceous, clothed with
dark brown pubeEcence on sides and above, beneath gray pubescent; femora with
three bands of gray-fu!vous, one basal, one near middle. and one at [l.J1ex; on
the pro- and mcoofemor.'L these HC very narrow b\lt 011 the mctafemom they are
so broad as to IlCflrly cover the entire surface; the tibiae with a band of grnyish­
fulvOU3 at middle ; tarsi gray pubescent, cbw :oegnlent dark reddish-hrowlI, gray
pubescent. Alltennae piccou, hllsnl half of third tlnd one-fifth of remaining seg·
meuts much paler, scape dark brown pubescent with a rather Inl'ge, grayish-fulvous
macula laterally at apex, remllining segments dark brown pubescent c,\:cept for
b.1sal llalf of third and one-fi fth of remaining segment,,; which arc grayishf\llvo\l
pubescent.
Head above minutly alutnceous, with 1\ median impressa