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54 THE 'L'lUBE ONClDERINI
Moderate in size, elongate-ovate, robust. Hoad with front broad, slightly
elongate, no little narrowed below eyes ; gena elongate, widened below; eye with
lower lobe oblong-ovate, two-thirds as long as gena; antennal tubercles well separ­
ated, prominent, robust, unarmed in male. Pronotum strongly transverse, at apex
much narrower than at base, sides straight, unanned ; disk entirely tumid, not
distinctly iuberculate. Scutellum transverse. Elytra with sides nearly straight,
distinctly attenuate apically, apices separately rounded ; disk with a slightly ele­
vnted, broad gibbosity, surfacc simply punctate on basal half ; humeri projecting,
anterior margin straight, slightly oblique, angle with a large tubercle which is
continued, erestlike, by an elevated carina, which C} .. 1:ends to basal quarter.
Prosternum simple, gradually wider postoriorly; mesosternal procc::s broad, slightly
·widened to apox, which is cmarginate. Legs moderately long; procoxae globose,
strongly \lncate in male; femora moderately robust, gradually and distinctly clavate
from apical quarter, profemora nearly cylindrical in male; meso- and metatibiae
swollen apically in malc. Antennae one and one-third times body length in male;
scape robust, strongly clavate on apical half, attaining middle of pronotumj third
segment very feebly bisinuate, nbout one and one-half times as long as scape, rest
gradually shorter; eleventh slightly longer than tenth, and with a termin.."l.l process
in male.
GENOTYPE : Hypsioma gilvicornis Thomson.
Delilah gilvicornis Thomson
PLATE I, FIGURE 15.
Hypsioma gilvicornis Dejean, Cat., 1837, p. 369 [nom. nud.].
Hypsioma gilvicornis Thomson, Physis, II, 1868, p. 46.
?I"IALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, elytra convex; dark reddish-brown, densely
covered with brown, light fu!vous, and white pubescence. lIend largely light fulvous
pubescent, mottled with dark brown, white maculate on center of front, on genae,
and along occiput laterally. Pronotum dark browll, variegated with pale fulvoDs
anteriorly, medially, and broadly along base, above hind angle a broad, short,
fulvous vitta, anterior angles maculate irregularly with white. Scutellum brown,
margined nnrrowly at apex with white, gradually very broadly so basally. Elytra
brown pubescent, with a white, very broken fascia at middle extending obliquely
from lateral margin nearly to suture, its posterior and anterior margins strongly
dentate; mncuinte with white, sparsely around scutellum, along suture, and on
gibbosities, very strongly so on entire apical hnlf, where the maculne are often
vermiculate and reticulate. Body beneath dark reddish-brown, entirely but irregu­
Inrly covered with hoary-gray pubesccnce, indistinctly mottled with brown on
metasternum, mesosternal sidepieces indistinctly maculate with pale fulvous;
abdomen a little more densely hoary pubesccnt laterally but not vittate, fifth
sternite with a triangular, apical, brown macula. Legs dark reddish-brown, thinly
hoary pubescent, indistinctly mottled with brown, tinged above with fulvou.s; tarsal
claw segment pale reddish all basal half, entirely hoary pubescent except on apex
where it is tinged with brown. Antennae with first two segments and apices of
others fuscous, from third segment basal three-fifths of each pale reddish ; pale