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64 THE TRIBE ONCIDERINl
Charoides cruda Erichson
PL.ATE IV, F1GURE 5.
JJypselomus crudWl Erichson, Arch. fur Naturg., xru, 1, 1847, p. 148.
HypsWmeJ cruda Erichson. wcordairo, Gen. Col., IX, 1872, p. 676. Thomson,
Typi Ceramb., 1878, table nt, p. 12.
llypsioma subfascwt4 Thomson, Class. Ceramb., 1860, p. 118.
HypselamtuJ dimidiatU$ Bates, Ann. Nat. Rist. (3), XVI, 1865, p. 112.
Hypsioma dimidiatua Bates, 100. cit., p. 170.
Elytra on basal half entirely dark brown, except for a few,
small, scattered patches of pale pubescence; abdomen medially
entirely dark brown pubescent ; metatibiae dark brown annulate
medially; prosternum processed; antennae with basal fifth of surface
of third segment pale and not more than basal fourth of following
segments pale.
}'EYALE. Elong.'lte-ovllte, robust, convex; dark brown or fuscous. Head and
pronotum grayish-yellow' pubescent, spotted and mottled with dark gnyish-brown.
Scutellwn dark brown, laterally nnrrowly vittate with grayish-yellow. Elytra
gmyish-brown pubescent, nt middle with a more or less triangular macula, the
longest side lateral, and apex of triangle toward but not attaining suture, macula
outlined with yellowish-white, the anterior edge bordered by a broad, dark brown
vitta which attains humerus, on inner side macula indistinctly streaked with
grayish-brown or dark fulvous; the apical portion of elytra spotted and streaked
indistinctly with slightly paler pubescence. Beneath dark brown or fUSCOUE,
sternites rather densely clothed with grayish-yellow pubescence, entire pro- and
mesosternum and sides of metnsternum mottled with dark grayish-brown; abdomen
dark brown pubescent, each side with a broad, ptlle fulvous vittn.. Legs dtlrk
brown, grayish-ye1lo\v pubescent, heavily streaked with dark brown pubescence;
tibiae annulate mediruly with gray-yellow; femora with nearly basal two-thirds
pale, apex dark brown. Antennae with seape piceous, remaining segments dark
brown; scape mottled with gray-yellow and dark brown pubescence; third segment
with basal fourth pale pubescent, remainder dark brown; from fourth segment
basnl thirds pale.
Had above finely, densely punct!lte, with fine median impressed line from
occiput nearly to epistorntl.; front roughly, coarsely, rather obsoletely punctate,
toward epistorna more or less rugose; antennal tubercles prominent, subapprox­
im!l.te; eye with lower lobe nearly ovate, subequ!l.l to genae which are vertical
and rugose. Pronotum transverse, base distinctly wider than apex; disk longitudinnlly
carinulate at middle, greater part of carina basal, sides of disk bitubereulate;
basal and apieal sulcus broad and rather shallow, apical curved at middle; lateral
tubercle feeble, with a short, obtuse process. Scutellum transverse; Rides straight,
oblique; apex deeply emllrginate medially. Elytra with sides feebly arcuate, slightly
narrowed apicai!y; apices separately rounded; base to middle at suture and to
basal third laterally, coarsely, sparsely, deeply punctate ; each elytron feebly
gibbons medially at base, behind middle punctures evanescent; humeri obliquely