APRIONA NEGLECTA, 7 
the upperside, denser and brighter on the underside and legs, 
variegated on the elytra with more or less numerous irre- 
gular small spots of a brighter coloured and denser pubes- 
cence, which spots may be very numerous and confluent, 
so as to replace for a great deal the darker pubescence, 
thus changing considerably the aspect of the insect; on the 
upperside of the tarsi the pubescence is very delicate; the . 
4th and succeeding joints of the antennae are sooty black 
or reddish brown; the extreme apical margin of the ventral 
segments shining black, 
Head transverse in front; underlobes of the eyes large, 
slightly broader than high, subapproximate in front, the 
upperlobes margined behind on the vertex with small black 
dots; the vertex impressed between the upperlobes, a fine 
median impressed line on the face and vertex. Antennae 
slender, considerably longer in the male than in the female, 
with tbe scape rather stout, slightly more than half the 
length of the third joint, the apex without cicatrix; the 
third joint not quite double the length of the fourth, the 
fourth to tenth slightly decreasing, the eleventh longer, sub- 
divided beyond the middle and here slightly thickened. 
Prothorax somewhat broader than long, with two undu- 
late transverse wrinkles at some distance from the anterior 
margin, a more or less distinct shield in the centre, at both 
sides of the shield some oblique wrinkles and across the 
base of the thorax two furrows, the anterior one deeper 
than the posterior one. The lateral spines are short, conical 
and distinctly directed upwards. The scutellum angularly 
truncate or broadly rounded. 
Elytra nearly parallelsided, the shoulders angular with 
a glossy black granule on the top, the apices emarginate, 
each emargination with two acute spines of which the sutural 
one is the longest. The elytra are regularly densely covered 
with punctures which become somewhat smaller near the 
apices. On the basal fifth the elytra are covered with 
numerous glossy black granules which on the sides extend 
somewhat farther backward. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XIV. 
