494 M. JACOBY 



31. A^ulaeoplxora Loi^iana, sp. n. 



Flavous, the labrum the antennae (the basal joints excepted) 

 the breast and the posterior legs black, head and thorax fulvous, 

 impunctate, elytra extremely minutely punctured, a transverse 

 band at the base, a more or less sinuate spot near the apex 

 (sometimes small or obsolete) and the extreme suturai apex 

 black. 



Length 8 millim. 



Head impunctate, pale fulvous, clypeus wedge shaped, labrum 

 black, eyes large, oval, antennae extending belov^ the middle 

 of the elytra, black, the lower two and the base of the third 

 joint Havous, third and following joints equal, slender, thorax 

 constricted at the base, the sides rather strongly rounded before 

 the middle, the surface impunctate, with the exception of a few 

 fine punctures near the anterior angles, the transverse sulcus 

 deep and straight, scutellum fulvous, elytra not depressed below 

 the base, liavous, with a black transverse band at the base, 

 extending downwards to one third their length and to the la- 

 teral margins, another black spot, more or less deeply concave 

 at its inner edge is placed near the apex and the apical margin 

 is likewise more or less narrowly black, under side and the an- 

 terior and intermediate femora, flavous, their tibiae and tarsi 

 piceous, the posterior legs, the extreme base excepted, entirely 

 blackish, last abdominal segment of the male with the median 

 lobe elongate and deeply longitudinally sulcate, that of the fe- 

 male with a short triangular emargination. 



Hah. Paumomu Riv., Haveri. S. E. New Guinea. 



I must separate this form for the present from ^4. militaris 

 Jac. and several other nearly similarly marked species on ac- 

 count of the large flavous intermediate space which separates 

 the elytral band and spot and the black apical elytral margins, 

 the species may however eventually prove to be an aberra- 

 tion only of the above mentioned insect to which it is at all 

 events closelv allied. 



