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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol. 
  67 
  

  

  HYPSELOSOMA 
  BOOPS, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Opaque 
  black, 
  legs 
  and 
  antennae 
  tawny 
  yellow, 
  base 
  of 
  

   beak 
  and 
  knee 
  joints 
  brown; 
  black 
  portions 
  with 
  gray 
  pruinescence, 
  

   the 
  venter 
  with 
  some 
  gray 
  hairs 
  also; 
  a 
  seta 
  near 
  inner 
  margin 
  of 
  

   eye, 
  and 
  several 
  about 
  base 
  of 
  beak; 
  punctures 
  in 
  an 
  area 
  along 
  com- 
  

   missure, 
  beginning 
  about 
  a 
  third 
  from 
  base 
  of 
  fore 
  wings 
  and 
  run- 
  

   ning 
  to 
  apex, 
  broadening 
  posteriorly, 
  coarser 
  than 
  elsewhere 
  ; 
  length 
  

   1.2 
  mm. 
  (fig. 
  30). 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Spirit 
  Valley, 
  Nanking. 
  Kiangsu 
  Province, 
  China, 
  

   October 
  24, 
  1919, 
  H. 
  F. 
  Loomis. 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  27611, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  NOTES 
  ON 
  UHLER'S 
  GENERA 
  IN 
  THE 
  BRITISH 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  W. 
  E. 
  China 
  has 
  very 
  kindly 
  sent 
  us 
  notes 
  and 
  sketches 
  relative 
  

   to 
  two 
  genera 
  of 
  Uhler 
  the 
  only 
  known 
  specimens 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  in 
  

   the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  We 
  are 
  thus 
  enabled 
  to 
  give 
  some 
  points 
  that 
  

   may 
  aid 
  in 
  identification 
  of 
  these 
  forms. 
  To 
  further 
  assist 
  toward 
  

   this 
  end 
  we 
  quote 
  the 
  original 
  descriptions. 
  

  

  Genus 
  ONCERODES 
  Uhler 
  

  

  Oncerodes 
  Uhler, 
  P. 
  R., 
  Proe. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  Lond., 
  pp. 
  159-160, 
  Feb. 
  20, 
  1S94 
  

   [Monobasic, 
  genotype 
  O. 
  robusta, 
  new 
  species 
  St. 
  Vincent]. 
  

  

  The 
  original 
  description 
  is 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  ONCERODES, 
  gen. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Coleopterine, 
  and 
  resembling 
  an 
  Issus 
  in 
  form 
  ; 
  the 
  hemelytra 
  particularly 
  

   wide 
  and 
  subglobose, 
  blunt 
  at 
  the 
  anterior 
  end. 
  Head 
  nearly 
  vertical, 
  short 
  

   and 
  broad, 
  moderately 
  convex 
  before 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  the 
  eyes, 
  transversely 
  im- 
  

   pressed 
  between 
  them 
  ; 
  the 
  cheeks 
  separated 
  by 
  deep 
  vertical 
  lines, 
  the 
  

   tylus 
  nearly 
  linear; 
  rostrum 
  very 
  short 
  and 
  thick, 
  tapering 
  at 
  tip 
  fitting 
  

   very 
  compactly 
  into 
  the 
  sternum, 
  reaching 
  to 
  tip 
  of 
  anterior 
  coxae; 
  antennae 
  

   with 
  the 
  two 
  basal 
  joints 
  thick, 
  the 
  second 
  joint 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  and 
  not 
  so 
  

   thick 
  as 
  the 
  first, 
  the 
  remaining 
  joints 
  threadlike, 
  finely 
  pubescent. 
  Pronotum 
  

   transverse, 
  nearly 
  crescent 
  shaped, 
  moderately 
  arched, 
  having 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   angles 
  rounded 
  off 
  to 
  fit 
  the 
  curve 
  of 
  the 
  eyes. 
  Scutellum 
  acutely 
  triangular, 
  

   much 
  longer 
  than 
  wide. 
  Hemelytra 
  but 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  wide, 
  suborbicular. 
  

   narrower 
  at 
  base, 
  corresponding 
  to 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  ; 
  the 
  veins 
  coarse 
  

   and 
  [p. 
  159] 
  prominent, 
  longitudinal, 
  the 
  two 
  middle 
  ones 
  connected 
  on 
  the 
  

   disk 
  and 
  sending 
  back 
  a 
  branch 
  parallel 
  to 
  the 
  others, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  continue 
  out 
  

   to 
  the 
  tip 
  ; 
  suture 
  of 
  the 
  clavus 
  deeply 
  defined, 
  the 
  clavus 
  wide 
  and 
  nearly 
  

   triangular. 
  Legs 
  stout, 
  placed 
  close 
  together. 
  

  

  ONCERODES 
  ROBUSTA, 
  sp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Short, 
  thick, 
  very 
  convex, 
  opaque 
  bluish-black, 
  with 
  a 
  velvety 
  aspect 
  above. 
  

   Base 
  of 
  the 
  hemelytra, 
  Including 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  clavus, 
  and 
  a 
  spot 
  expanded 
  

   on 
  the 
  costal 
  margin, 
  bright 
  yellow. 
  Head 
  transversely 
  rugulose, 
  the 
  front 
  

   piceous, 
  with 
  the 
  throat 
  and 
  antennae 
  dull 
  honey-yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  rostrum 
  a 
  little 
  

   darker. 
  Legs 
  thick 
  and 
  short, 
  honey-yellow. 
  Venter 
  dull 
  black, 
  rufo-pieeous 
  

   on 
  the 
  genitnl 
  pieces. 
  

  

  