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LAWRENCE S. DILLON AND ELIZABETH S. DILLON 55
fulvous pubescent, macula on club of scape and dark apices of following segments
dark brown.
Head minutely alutnceous, with a median impressed line from occiput to
clypeus; front nearly of equal width throughout, constricted slightly above clypeus,
deeply concave and imp between :'Intennal tubercles, slightly tumid at center,
transversely impressed above clypeu8, entire surface very finely, not densely
punctate; genae elongate, vertical, narrowed just below eye, very finely, not densely
punctate; eye with lower lobe oblong, small, equal to two-thirds the height of gena;
sntennal tuberdcs robust, prominent, well separated, unnnned at al)Cx. Pronotum
strongly transverse, sides nearly straight, narrowed gradually to npex, unarmed;
spicsl and basal transverse sulci shallow, the latter coalescent with the very short,
shallow, oblique lateral ones; entire disk tumid, including central portion, SO that
there is no separate median tubercle, the part each side of middle more strongly
elevated, between middlc and side a short, disinct, longitudinal impression, along
basal sulcus eoarsely and sparsely punctate. Scutellum strongly transverse, sides
straight, oblique, apex broadly rounded, notched medially, not elcvnted or produced
laterally. Elytra with sides nearly straight, tapering to apices, which Ilre separ­
ately rounded; ba.sal gibbosity not very promincnt, between it and humerus and
behind it a sinunte, longitudinal (then obliquc) imprCS!lion, entire base coarsely,
not densely, uniformly punctate, behind middle punctures suddenly finer nnd shal­
lower, obsolete before apex; humeri strongly projecting and elevated, anterior
margin straight, slightly oblique, anglc acute, with a very inrge, prominent, curved
tubercle, which is continued, crestlike, by an elevated carinn, this extends strongly
obl iquely for n space equal in length to the anterior margin, thcn runs longitudin­
ally for a shorter dist{lnce and fades into the disk; sides below humeri punctate as
disk. Prosternum simple, rather broad, expanded only at extreme bnse. Procoxae
anteriorly tumid and armed with an obtusely angulatcd, robust uncus ; femora.
elongate, clavate, profemora robust, subcylindrical, narrowed at base and apex,
bencath very finely rugose; mesotibine and metatibiae equally and strongly expanded
apically, densely sctose. Fifth sternite slightly longer than fourt.h, apex broadly
rounded, feebly cmarginate at middle. Antennae one-third again as loug IlS body,
eighth segment surpassing elytral apex, beneath sparsely fimbrillte on proximal
three segments; SCRpe robust, compressed, gradually and strongly clnv:lte from base,
beneath at base irregularly rugose; third segment one and two-fifths times the length
of first, feebly bisinuousj fourth Ilnd fifth succCS5ively shorter, rest rubeqllnl,
'eleventh with a short process at apex.
LENGTH 15.5 mm.; width 7 mm.
Type localify.-Brazil.
Distribution.-.Amazon region.
BRAZIL : t; Santarem; [C.M.].
CHAROIDES Dillon and Dillon, gen. nov.
Related to Hypsioma in the body form; front elongate, dis­
tinctly and gradually narrowed above j pronotum conical, disk with
five tubercles, or with a median tubercle and a tumescence each