(237 ) 



Length, 11 mm. 



Ilab. Mansou Mts., Tonkin, 2000— ;i()0(t I't., April— May (Fmlistorfer). 



1 c?. 



19. Apolecta diversa spec. nov. 



S. Brown-black ; femora, basal two-thirds of tibiae, and antenna rufescent ; 

 nnderside pubescent olivaceous grey, indistinctly spotted with clay-colour at the 

 sides ; a clayish ochraceous vitta from antenna over frons to base of pronotnni, 

 interrnpteJ in the middle of the pronotum, the two pronotal portions triangnlar ; 

 a cross-like mark in middle of pronotum, a median dot towards the side and 

 a short lateral apical stripe clayish grey ; elytra clayish ochraceous, shaded with 

 grey ; a halfmoon-shaped spot on snbbasal gibbosity, a transverse spot in middle, 

 another just before apical declivity, and several dots scattered over the elytra, 

 the largest of them at and near shoulder, brown ; tip of antenna silky white : 

 apex to tibiae and the tarsi black, basal five-sixtlis of first segment white. 



Head rugulose ; a thin, channelled, mesial carina. Apical triangular depression 

 of rostrum limited behind by a transverse carina. Pronotum as in A. nietneri 

 (186(1) Lac, more dispersedly jiunctnred, the carina mesially farther from the 

 base, interrupted. Elytra cylindrical, nut depressed as in A. nietnerl. Prosternnm 

 punctured laterally, with very few laige punctures in middle. First abdominal 

 segment of abdomen with a double tubercle midway between base and apex. 



Length, S mm. 



Hah. Kuching, North Borneo, Januarv 1900. 



1 S. 



