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APALOTRIUS. 



1. Apalotrius pubescens. (Tab. VII. fig. 1.) 



A. ovalis, latus, subdepressus, pubescens, Iv/ridw ; cap tie brevi, de- 

 presso, parum producto, inter oculos transverse foveoJato, sparsim 

 punctato, nigro, ad frontem Jiavo ; thorace transverso, angulis an- 

 terioribus coarctatis, marginato, subcomplanato,pubescenti, jiavo ; 

 eh/trls latis, punctato-striatis, nigro-fuscis vel nigris, nitidis, sed 

 ad apicem et latera pube flava (inter strias 4 et 5 prcesertim) 

 vestitis ; antennis pedibusque Jlavis, femorum posticorum apici- 

 bus exceptis nigris. 



Long. corp. 3 tin., lat. L| tin. 



Oval, broad, robust, slightly depressed. Head and thorax much 

 narrower than the elytra, pubescent. Head short, transverse, de- 

 pressed in front ; eyes large, globose, distant, their exterior margin 

 extending laterally as far as the line of the margin of the thorax ; 

 between the eyes is a transverse fovea, extending in an oblique 

 direction towards the upper margin of the eyes ; the surface of the 

 head is sparingly but deeply punctured ; black, the anterior portion 

 (in front of the insertion of the antennae) being flavous. Thorax 

 transverse, slightly narrowed in front ; sides marginate, and (when 

 viewed laterally) deflected from the humeral angle to the lower 

 margin of the eyes ; the anterior and posterior angles are subacute 

 and distinct ; the surface of the thorax is equate and veiy finely punc- 

 tured throughout, pubescent, flavous. Scutellum triangular, slightly 

 granulated, fuscous. Elytra broad, depressed, punctate- striate ; black, 

 shining, clothed throughout irregularly, but especially at the apex, 

 the margins, and between the fifth and sixth striae, with a fine silky 

 golden pubescence (this band of pubescence between the fifth and 

 sixth striae is in perfect specimens very marked and distinct). Antennae 

 robust, filiform, with the first joint incrassated, and deflected outwards 

 at the apex ; the second somewhat more attenuate, short and ovate ; 

 of the rest, which are filiform, the third is longer than the fourth, 

 and the fourth narrower than the fifth ; the two basal joints are 

 ferrugineous, the rest flavous. Legs entirely flavous, with the ex- 

 ception of the apex of the postical femora, which is black. 



Several examples of this fine species have been sent home by 

 Mr. Bates from Ega (River Amazon). 



It is probable that in quite recent specimens the elytra will be 

 found to be clothed throughout with a fine griseous pubescence, 

 instead of being, as in the examples before me, black and shining ; 

 and that this pubescence will obscure the longitudinal band, which 

 in these examples is so conspicuous. 



