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702. Aoria nigrita, Jac. Ann. Mas. Civ. Genova , 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. 
Hah. Burma : Buby Mines. 
703. Aoria bowringi, Bahj (Adoxus), Journ. o/ Ent. i, 1860, p. 27; 
id. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, p. 79, pi. iv, fig. 1. 
Hark fulvous, with five or six spots on the elytra, a patch at 
apex of each pleuron and the metacoxae black. 
Ovate, very convex ; body covered with obscure fulvous hairs. 
Head closely punctured ; elypeus triangular, separated from the 
face by an acutely ungulate grooved line : surface more strongly 
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 silicate 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 
Fig. 137 . — Aoria bowringi, var 
