Genus 219. — HYPSGNOTUS. ,43 



gulatis; pone humeros fere linearia vel levissime tantum ampliata, 

 margine laterali sinuata , versus apicem descendentia , attenuata , 

 abdoincn arcte amplectentia , apicc ipso conjunctim acuminata , 

 vel sub-mucronata ; supra antice parum convexa , postice sub- 

 gibba, ibique callo oblongo, plus minusve elevato, singulatim 

 praedita , pone gibberem abrupte declivia , undiquc remote striato- 

 punctata, in dorso plus minusve distincte transversim rugosa, 

 squamositate ferruginea vel brunneo-cinerascentc , ad latera et 

 pone gibberem dense, in dorso parcius obducta, punctis squa- 

 mulis albidis pupillatis; versus apicem piaeterea setulis umbrinis 

 adspersa, ipso margin e apicis densius griseo-pilosö ; in gibbere 

 nonnumquam plaga transversa atro-fusca. Pectus et abdomen 

 punctulata , minus dense cinerascenti-squamosa et setulosa , hoc 

 deplanato , segmentis tertio quartoque brevissimis , anali oblongo- 

 triangulari. Pedes validiusculi , concolores, femoribus modice in- 

 crassatis , tenuissime albido-squamulosis ; tibiis anticis apice in- 

 curvis, omnibus densius griseo-squamulosis etsetosis; tarsis dila- 

 tatis, albido-tomentosis. 



Vau. ß non nisi indumento dilutiore , albido, differt (Forsan 

 specimina adultiora ). 



Var. 7 plerumquc minor, statura angustiore, magis lineari, 

 rostro nonnihil longiore elytrisque apice conjunctim sub-rotunda- 

 tis, nullo modo mucronatis ( An alter sexus?). — Fhs. 



O*!^ 2. H. Loculosus. Germar. 



Oblongus , ceqttalitcr convexus , niyer, tenuiter argcntco-squamulosus , 

 rostro carinulis tribus, basi nonnihil divergcnlibus , notalo ; lliorace 

 sub-cylindrico , granis cenlro depressis, partim conßucnlibus ob- 

 sito; elytris sub-lincaribus , punctis vel scrobiculis remotioribus, ex- 

 cavalis , squamis argenteis repletis , concinnc scriatis. — Fhs. 



Hypsonotus uteunosus. Huj. op. II. p. i5l\. ?..' 

 Dejean. Catal. cd. 2 p. 2;")f). cd. 3. p. 282. 

 Patria : Brasilia. 



(j*Q. 3. II. CoMIMUMATl S. Sfllll. 



Oblong us , nigrr, rostro /\-sulcalo ; thoracc crebre verrucosa, vitta la- 

 terali obsoleta, alho-sfpiamosa ; etytris postice compresso-carinatis , 

 antcrius crebre et profunde striato-pitnctatis , in tergo tränst 

 rugosis-, versus apicem pvnctato-sukatis , vitta discoidaU atiaque 

 marainaM atbido-squamulosis. mterdum obsoletis ; humeris caltosis. 



