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Charoides antennata antennata Dillon and Dillon, spec. nov.
FLATE IV, FIGURE 11.
From C. lycimnia, to which it is most closely related, this species
can be distinguished by elytra having the median fascia indistinct,
sometimes wanting, punctation on basal half of disk obsolete
j eye with lower lobe subequal in height to gena, not shorter
than it j abdomen more uniformly dark medially.
FEMALE. Elongate-ovate, robust, convex; fuscous or piceous, elytm a little
paler; entirely covered with hoary-gray, grayish-brown, and fulvous-gray pubes­
cence, in varying proportions. Head and pronotum finely mottled with dark brown
pubescence, the former on vertex usually with a brown, triangular mark each side
of median line; front at middle maculate with gray each side of median line.
Pronotum with a transverse, gray macula at center of base, sometimes divided into
two, on each of the hind and anterior angles a short streak of fulvous-gray.
Scutellum brownish pubescent, sides margined with gray, more so basally. Elytra
medially with a rather indistinct, broken, broad line or narrow band of white,
running iust before middle of side margins to disk, then oblique to behind center
of suture, anterior to this a very faint, oblique bar of dark grayish-brown,
apical half with scattered, indistinct maculae of whitish and brown pubescence.
Body beneath dark reddish-brown, thinly hoary and brown pubescent mottled with
dark brown, hoary gray medially; abdomen fuscom, medially clothed with hoary­
gray pubescence, mottled sparingly with brown, sometimes the basal half of first ·
etemite entirely brown, laterally broadly vittate with ochraceous, vitta on its e}.1:.er
nal two-thirds more thinly pubescent and mottled with dark brown, usually not
strongly narrowed on basal segments, on fifth, however, consisting only of a single
macula at base in a line continuing the inller brighter portion. Legs dark ' reddish­
brown, sparsely hoary pubescent, mesotibiae feebly annulate with denser pubes­
cence at middle; tarsi wit-h claw segment reddish-yellow, apical two-fifths black.
Antennae black, basal one-third of third and basal fourth of the following segments
yellowish or deep rosy annulate (the latter in the type specimen); dark brown pu­
bescent, scape, second segment and pale bases of other segments hoary-gray pubes­
cent, the scape mottled with brown.
Head minutely, densely punctate, with median line from occiput nearly to
epistoma; front feebly concave between antennal tubercles, minutely, densely
punctate, with a few larger punctures along sides and below; genae vertical,
densely, minutely, and sparsely, coarsely, punctate; eye with lower lobe broadly
oblong, subequal in height to gena; antennal tubercles prominent, well separated,
slightly produced but not armed at apex. Pronotum with sides straight, strongly
tapering to apex, ull3.nned; apical transverse sulcus narrowly interrupted at
middle, basal one deeper, straight, coalescent with lateral oblique ones; disk with
the median line elevated, widened triangularly on basal half, each side distinctly
tumid, the tumescence traversed obliquely by .!L faint impression, basally finely
but distinctly punctate in an undulated line. Scutellum transverse; sides straight,
narrowed to apex; apex notched and impressed at middle. Elytra with sides broadly
arcuate, apices each narrowly rounded; disk at base very feebly gibbose, to middle
coarsely, rather densely, irregularly punctate, thence more finely so, from apical