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78 THE TRIBE ONCIDERINI
fulvous is extended interruptedly nearly across the segments. Legs dark reddish­
brown to fuscoue, sparsely fulvous pubescent; femora mottled wit.h dark browTJ, pro­
femora. hoary pubescent posteriorly; tibiae apically dark brown setose, meso- and
metatibiae broadly fulvous-Sllllulate at middle; tarsi with claw segment on apical
ono-third or two-fifths piceolls, basal portion pale reddish-brown. Antennae fuscous,
basal half of third, two-fifths of fourtb, and one-third of remaining segments pale
yellow unnulate; scape fulvous pubescent, mottled with brown, its apical third and
apical portion of following segments covered with dark brown pubescence; the
pale basal parts of all segments with light yellowish-gray pubescence; eleventh
at apex tufted with golden hairs.
Head minutely, densely punctate, with a median impressed line from occiput
almost to epistoma; front feebly concave between antennal tubercles, finely,
densely punctate, without any distinct coarser punctures or irnpre35iollS j genae
vertical, entirely pubeacent, finely, densely punctate; eye with lower lobe oblong,
one and one-fourth times the height of the gena ; antennal tubercles slightly promi­
nent, well separated, not armed at apex. Pranotum transverse; sides nearly
straight, )]nrfowed strongly to apex, unarmed; apical transverse sulcus narrowl y
interrupted at mi ddle, the basal aile more distinct, coalescent with the lateral
obliques ones; disk with the mediaD line elevated, widened triangularly on basal
half, each side with a large, rounded t1llllid :uea, traversed by a faint oblique sulcw,
b:tsally with a sinuous line of small, but distinct, punctures. Scutellum transverse;
sides straight, strongly tapering; apex broadly rounded, narrowly emarginate and
impressed at middle, the lateral lobes slightly elevated. Elytra with sides straight
behind humeri, from apical third broadly arcuate, apices separately rounded; disk
basally slightly gibbose, entire basal half irregularly covered with dense, moderate­
size punctures, behind middle puncture.3 much finer to apex; humeri promi­
nent, anterior margin straight, distinctly but not strongly oblique, the angle
with a feebly elcvated, rounded tubercle; sides punctate as disk but coarse punc­
tures extending marc posteriorly. Prosternum simple. Procoxae tumid posteriorly,
anteriorly with 11. feeble, broad, obtuse tubercle; femora clava·te, rather slen­
der, profemora not all rugose; metatihiac unmodified. Fifth sternite half again
as long as fourth, its apex retuse, with a median impressed line and apical two­
thirds broadly, triangularly impres.. .«ed. Antennae a little shorter than body, fim­
briate beneath with long hairs on apical half of scape to fifth segment and on
apices of several following segments; scape slender, elongate, slightly clavate on
apical hnlf, not rugose on base; third segment longer than first, strongly bisinuate;
fourth shorter, arcuate; rest gradually decreasing in length.
LI';NGTH 17.5 mm.; width 8 mm.
Holotype.-Female; Teffe, Brazil, July 1924; [A.M.N.H.] .
AGARITHA Dillon and Dillon, gen. nov.
Front elongate, very slightly widened below eye; eye with lower
lobe broadly ovate, about half the height of gena ; antennae with
scape attaining apical third of pronotuill, slender, gradually clavate
beyond basal third, third segment half again as long as first.
slender, very feebly sinuous, eleventh not elongate in male ; pro-