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round black spot situated in A. nietneri on the basal callosity of each elytrum is 

 absent in A. andrewesi or barely vestigial, aud the snbapical spot is replaced by a 

 diffuse brown transverse band. The grey pubescence of the elytra occupies more 

 space than the brown, the elytra of well-preserved specimens being grey irrorated 

 with brown, with the natural interstice almost tesselated. 



2. Apolecta papuana virgata subsp. nov. 



c? ? . Occipite pronotoque vitta mediana nigra sat lata notatis. 



Hab. Batjan ; type in Mus. Brit. 



The middle stripe of the head is dilated between the eyes. The sides of the 

 pronotum are much less extended black than in A. p. papuana Jord. (1895),. 

 whereas the central area bears a broadish black stripe, which does not quite reach 

 the carina, and is much narrower some distance before the centre. At each side of 

 the central elevation there is in the depression an indefinite, elongate, black spot, 

 which is connected with the central stripe. Laterally to the depressions the pro- 

 notum bears an elongate grey spot before the carina, and another near the apical 

 margin. Metasternum and abdomen laterally variegated with blackish markings, 

 the sides being almost uniformly clay-colour in A. ]). papuana. 



3. Apolecta latipennis spec. nov. 



? . A. aspericolli Kirsch (1875) vicina. Supra maculis luteis sat magnis plus 

 minusve confluis tessellata, antennis corpore triplo longioribus, prouoto punctulato 

 in medio haud calloso, elytris latis, valde depressis, ante apicem declivem traus- 

 versim sat fortiter elevatis, metasterno toto punctis grannlisque aspero distincta. 



Long. (cap. excl.) 14 mm., lat. 5 - 8 mm. 



Hab. Perak (W. Doherty), 1 ¥ ex coll. van de Poll. 



Black ; the clay-coloured pubescence of the upper surface broken up into spots 

 by a black network, the clay spots on the whole larger than the black spaces 

 between them. The pronotum not depressed and without the median callosity 

 present in nearly all the other species, but the median line faintly elevate in the 

 centre and feebly impressed posteriorly; the carinae similar to those of A.javanica 

 Jord. (1894). Elytra broader even than in A. jamnica, broadly depressed, and in 

 front of the apical declivity much more elevate transverse than in any other species 

 of the genus. Pygidium clay-colour, with the lateral margins and the median line 

 black ; apex very feebly impressed. Antenna about three times as long as the 

 body. 



Underside clay-colour at the sides, more grey centrally; metasternum densely 

 granulate centrally, punctate-granulate laterally ; last sternite long, rounded- at 

 the apex. Tibiae rufous, with black apices. Tarsi black, the greater part of the 

 upperside of the first segment pubescent greyish white. 



4. Apolecta suda spec. nov. 



? . Nigra ; capite griseo bivittato ; pronoto luteo-griseo pubescente, vittis 

 tribus nigris, lateralibus interruptis, ornato, impunctato ; elytris luteo-ochraceo 

 subreticnlatim maculatis ; subtus sparsim grisescens, lateribus luteo-ochraceo 

 macnlata. 



