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Genus HILAROTES Thomson 



Hilarotes Saunders, Catal. Bupr., 1871, p. 21. — Thomson, Typ. Bupr., 1878, 

 pp. 39-40. — Keeremans, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 12, pt. 2, 

 1903, p. 89 ; Men. Bupr., vol. 3, 1909, pp. 425-429. 



Head regularly arcuate, and feebly convex, slightly wider in 

 front than at vertex; front not narrowed by the insertion of the 

 antennae, and more or less rugose; occiput with a narrow longi- 

 tudinal groove; epistoma transversely truncate; antennal cavities 

 small, rounded, margined posteriorly by an obtuse elevation, and 

 situated near the anterior margin of epistoma and also rather close to 

 the inner margin of the eyes. Antennae short; first joint elongate, 

 and feebly clavate; second very short, obconical; third slender, 

 elongate and feebly triangular; fourth about equal in length to 

 the third, but broader at the apex; the following joints feebly 

 triangular and becoming gradually shorter toward the last joint, 

 and armed with the poriferous pores on both sides of the joints, and 

 with a small fovea on the under side near the anterior apical angle. 

 Eyes rather large, elliptical, feebly convex, and slightly closer to 

 each other on the vertex than at the front. Pronotum wider than 

 long, moderately convex, and the disk with three longitudinal im- 

 pressions; base feebly sinuate. Scutellum small and rounded. Ely- 

 tra moderately convex, nearly truncate at base, attenuate poster- 

 iorly, sides with a single tooth near apex. Sternal cavity formed 

 by the mesosternum and metasternum; mesosternum divided, the 

 lateral branches rather long and oblique; metasternum truncate in 

 front, with a deep arcuate groove on the disk. Prosternum feebly 

 convex, the anterior margin arcuately emarginate and stronglj-^ 

 elevated; prosternal process wide, feebly convex, and not sulcate at 

 middle. Posterior coxae strongly dilated internally; anterior mar- 

 gin strongly sinuate; posterior margin oblique, usually with a 

 large obtuse tooth near the middle, but sometimes obsolete. Legs 

 slender, anterior and middle femora slightly swollen at middle, the 

 posterior pair subcylindrical and feebly flattened on both sides; 

 tibiae slender and cylindrical; tarsi depressed, the first joint of 

 the posterior pair nearly as long as the following two joints united. 

 First abdominal segment nearly as long as the following three seg- 

 ments united, and more or less concave at the middle. Body 

 elongate, attenuate in front, and more acuminate posteriorly. 



This name was first used by Saunders (1871) for two species, 

 Tiiannerhehni Mannerheim, and chalcoytera Jacquelin Duval without 

 giving any description, but Thomson (1878) gives a description of 

 the genus under the same name, in which he includes both of the 

 species listed by Saunders. At present the genus includes three 

 species, two of which have been described from Haiti, and the other 

 from Cuba. 



