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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
$ Capite pro ratione paulo elongato , stipite anguslo , longissimo ; 
thorace longiore , anguste conico , antice magis elevato et gibboso. 
Long, tola 12 mill.; cap. cum stip. (2-^)4; thor. 2; elytr. 
4^; antenn. 2^ mill. Lat. bas. thor. 1^; huraer. 3^; pone 
med. elytr. 3^ mill. 
9 Robustior : capite pro ratione valde elongato , magis convexo , sti¬ 
pite brevi , crasso ; thorace robustiore, breviore , exacte conico , 
antice parum elevato et gibboso. Long, tota 10^; rostr. cap. 
cum stip. (^) 3 ; thor. 1^; elytr. 5 ; antenn. 2^ mill. 
Patria : Colombo insulae Ceylon. 
General shape and construction of both sexes as in Apod, cygneus ; 
much larger (especially the $ ; the single $ I have seen I regard as a 
small specimen ) • the head is more convex ; the strigosities of the neck 
in the $ are fewer and stronger ; the thorax is more robust and less elon¬ 
gate ; the elytra more deeply punctate-striate, &c. The colour is also dif¬ 
ferent. The 2 bears a more striking resemblance to Apod, montanus in 
size, general coloration, proportion and puncturing of the elytra, 
but the head is more conic, elongate, much less convex ; its neck is more 
robust; the thorax is less deeply emarginate at the apex, more regularly 
conic, the sides being straight, and its apical and basal strangulations 
are slighter ; the transverse strigosities underneath (as well as on the 
coxae) are also shallower ; the pectus is not so deeply punctate-rugose, 
though much more so than in Apod, cygneus . 
Named after Mr. Nietner, a resident in Ceylon (a zealous cor¬ 
respondent to our best friend and honorable president of the Entomolo¬ 
gical Society of Stettin), who has detected this and many other 
interesting species, and who has begun describing the insects of that 
island in his valuable entomological papers. 
* Apoderus collaris, Jekel. 
Nitidus , jlavo-ochraceus , thorace , scutello , margine circumscutellari 
elytrorum , pectore genubusque anticis subsanguineo saturatioribus ; 
capite cum rostro , margine apicali thoracis , elytris, tibiis tarsisque 
anticis nigris , tibiis tarsisque intermediis brunnescentibus ; capite 
lato , oblongo-conico ; thorace conico , antice abrupte attenuate, 
profunde cons trie to, margine apicali sat incrassata lateque emargi- 
nata ; elytris oblong o-quadratis, laxe punctato-substriatis, punctis 
