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obtuse tubercle at the angle, posteriorly from which extends a short. carina ; base
simply, coarsely, and closely punctate, gibbosities either side at. base very feeble
and broad. Prosternum simple, broad, slightly narrowed anteriorly; mesosternal
process broad, emarginate laterally, apex broad, very deeply bilobedly emnrginate.
Legs long; procoxae globose, uncate in male, obtusely tuberculate in female ; femora
elongate, slightly robust, gradually elavate; meso- and metatibiae expanded apicilly
in male; protarsi dilated in male. Antennae one and one-half to one and two­
thirds times as long as body in mnle, slightly longer than body in female; scape
elongate, slender, reaching beyond middle of pronotum; third segment moderately
bisinuate, one and one-third times length of first; eleventh much longer than
tenth in male.
GENOTYPE : Hypsioma egens Erichson.
Bucoides egens Erichson
FLATE III, FlOURE 8.
Hypselomus egen:; Erichson, Arch. Naturg., XIII, 1847, p. 148.
Hyprimna egem Erichson. Lacordaire, Gen. Col. IX, 1872, p. 676.
)'1ALB. Elonga.te-o\'1l.te, rather robust, subcylindrical, elytrn subconvex; head
and pronotum piceous, e1ytra dark reddish-brown; all over grayish-yellow to dull
fulvous pubescent and with brown or brownish pubescence as foJlows: Head mottled
on vertex and on front, the brown predominating on front. Pronotum more or
less variegated medially and with small, scattered, round maculae. Scutellum at
middle with a narrow vitta. Elytra with a large, common, triangular spot basally,
the base of which extends from humerus to humerus and tho apex attaining
middle of ely,tea. at suture, the paler pubescence condensed to fonn several fine
lines on C3ch elytron behind middle. Benea'th piceous or black, sterna densely
covered with grayish-yellow or dull fulvous pubescence; abdomen with a broad
vitta each side of same pubescence, denser on inner side. Legs piceous to dark
reddish-brown, gray-yellow or dull fulvous pubescent. Antennae piceous to dark
reddish-brown, grayish-yellow p\lbescent, a small macula on apex of scape, the
apical dorsal two-thirds of third, most of fourth, and a slender line on dorsal side
of fifth segments dark brown pubescent.
Head a.bove finely, shallowly punctate; a median impressed line from occiput
to near epistorna; front feebly narrowed between eyes, surface finely, densely
punctate; genae elongate, slightly pubescent, finely, densely punctate; lower lobe
of eye oblong, about one-fifth longer than genae; antennal tuberclos well­
separated, prominent, feebly and very robustly produced at apex. Fronotum
transversej sides straight, oblique, base about one-third wider than apex, a basal
and an apical transverse sulcus, basal oblique laterally; disk with five tubercles, one
median nearer base, elongate, two either side of middle, well elevated, broad,
extreme lateral ones elongat. Scutellum transverse; sides straight, oblique; apex
truncate, feebly notched medially. Elytra with sides nearly straight, moderately
attenuate to apiCC8 which are separately rounded; base of each elytron at middle
with a broad, arcuate, feebly elevated gibbosity, entire base to behind middle feebly
rugose, and with coarse, deep punctures which are well-separated, thence to apices