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with erect pale hair, and very similar to A. comosa, Karsch. 
It differs from that in having the head still more closely 
punctured, the sides of the pronotum more strongly rounded 
behind the middle, the terminal tooth of the front tibia more 
produced and the upper tooth shorter, but most markedly 
by the peculiar opaque band bordering the elytra externally. 
‘This is due to a microscopic sculpturing of the surface upon 
this area, which extends from near the middle of the outer 
margin to the sutural angle. It is flattened, and the punc- 
tures upon it are partially obiiterated. 
Four specimens were taken by Mr, Green. 
Apogonia fulvosetosa, sp. n. 
Obscure rufo-cuprea, undiqye breviter squamoso-setosa, setis fulvis, 
decumbentibus, corporis supra inequaliter dispersis, corpore sub- 
tus squamis minutis regularibus vestito; rdbusta, sat lata, capite 
grosse inequaliter punctato, clypeo brevi, punctato; pronoto 
rugose punctato, fossis vagis nonnullis lineaque levi interrupta 
mediana predito, lateribus post medium fortiter arcuatis, angulis 
anticis productis acutis, posticis obtusis; scutello crebre punc- 
tato et squamoso; elytris crebre punctato-rugosis, callis humerali- 
bus et apicalibus prominentibus ; pygidio grosse et rugose punc- 
tato, medio anguste carinato; pedibus gracilibus, tibia antica 
dentibus duobus brevibus tertioque vix perspicuo armata: 
d, tarsis paulo longioribus. 
Long. 11-12 mm.; lat. max. 8 mm. 
Hab. CreYLon: Peradeniya (EH. EL. Green). 
Mr. Green found two specimens of this—a female in April 
and a male in the following May. It is of great interest 
from the fact that the nearest allied species are found in 
Celebes and other Malayan islands. It is a large compact 
insect, with a fine and close but irregular sculpture, and 
clothed with close-lying elongate yellow scales or scale-like 
sete, those of the upper surface more elongate and less 
minute and regularly disposed than those upon the lower 
surface. The entire upper surface is finely and closely but 
rather rugosely punctured, with small smooth areas upon the 
head and pronotum, and several large shallow depressions 
upon the latter. The pygidium has a narrow, smooth, longi- 
tudinal carina along the middle. ‘The legs are slender, the 
front tibia bearing two small and blunt teeth placed close 
together at the extremity and a very feeble one above them. 
The tarsi of the male are a little longer, and upon the front 
teet a little more dilated, than those of the female. 
