APHTHONA. 



371 



Type in the Brussels Museum. An example from Duvivier's 

 collection, which may he regarded as a cotype, is in the British 

 Museum. 



288. Aphthona hugeli, Jacoby. 



Aphthona hngeli, Jac, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. vh, 1900, p. 121. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour shining reddish-brown ; the two 

 basal segments of the antennae brown, the third partly so, the 

 rest black ; mandibles piceous ; scutellum black to piceous; elytra 

 black ; in some specimens the tarsi are more or less piceous or 



Fig. 125. — Aphthona hugeli, Jac. 



fuscous, and in others the black of the elytra teods to become 

 brown. 



Head impunctate, frontal tubercles narrowly transverse, clypeus 

 distinctly raised ; penultimate segment of maxillary palpi rather 

 thick. Antennae extending a little beyond the middle of the 

 elytra ; basal segment elongate and club-shaped, second very 

 short and thick, third and fourth equal, fifth somewhat longer, and 

 the following segments slightly thicker led. Prothorax somewhat 

 broader than long, sides slightly roun lad, with a narrow reflexed 



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