AOKIA. 397 



702. Aoria nigrita, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxii, 1892, p. 904. 



Black, clothed with white pubescence ; femora rufous. 



Head closely and finely punctured, pubescent ; antennae rather 

 more than half the length of the body, basal three joints fulvous 

 beneath, fourth the longest. Thorax very closely and rather 

 more strongly punctured than in A. nigripes, but of similar 

 shape. Elytra with deep punctures arranged in rows ; puncturation 

 transverse, wrinkled, interstices finely punctured and pubescent. 



Var. Legs entirely black. 



Length 5| mm. 



Bab. Burma : Euby Mines. 



703. Aoria bowringi, Baly (Adoxus), Journ. of Ettf. i, 1860, p. 27 ; 



id. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, p. 79, pi. iv, fig. 1. 



Dark fulvous, with five or six spots on the elytra, a patch at 

 apex of each pleuron and the metacoxaB black. 



Ovate, very convex ; body covered with obscure fulvous hairs. 

 Head closely punctured ; clypeus triangular, separated from the 

 face by an acutely angulate grooved line : surface more strongly 



Fig. 137. Aoria bowringi, var. 



and remotely punctured, shining; on either side above the in- 

 sertion of the antennae is a slightly raised smooth tubercle. 

 Thorax subglobose above, covered with fulvous hairs which are 

 shorter than those on any other part of the body, sides regularly 

 rounded, surface deeply punctured ; puncturation crowded and 

 often rugose at sides, rather more scattered on the disc, centre of 

 latter covered by a large black patch sometimes absent. Elytra 

 oblong, convex; each elytron with eleven sulcate striae, the first 

 abbreviated, each stria impressed with a single row of irregular 

 punctures ; interstices raised and subcostate towards the lateral 

 margin, all distinctly but finely punctured ; a large spot at middle 



