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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
This species is the only anomaly in the Apoderi pr. d. by its elongate 
head. Nevertheless, it may at once be distinguished from the two pre¬ 
ceding subgenera in having the antennae much shorter, hardly as long, 
in proportion to the size, as in Apod. Coryli; the shortness of the 
last joint of the club in the $ ; and the thorax slightly constricted at the 
apex, with the margin much thinner and not so deeply emarginate. The 
only and slight sexual disparity in the head here above-recorded— 
not stronger than in Apod. Coryli —shows its real place is here, and will 
in the same time help in distinguishing it from some new allied species 
in which the head is much shortened, and constructed after the genuine 
type. 
Apoderus javanicus, Jelcel. 
Subsericeo-nitidus , rufo-brunneus, antennis , abdomine tibiis tarsisque 
dilutioribus; fronte , lateribus capitis thoracisque , elytrorum 
macula humerali , plaga semi-fasciata media , macula apicali dua- 
busque communibus suturce , pygidio apice , lateribus pectoris , coxis 
anticis ( apice excepio) basi apiceque femorum nigricantibus ; 
capite breviter obconico , transversim striguloso ; thorace subconico , 
lateribus paululum rotundato , supra oblique strigoso , medio canali- 
culato; elytris profunde anguste striato-punctatis , interstitiis con- 
vexis, transversim rugulosis. 
$ Long, tota mill.; cap. cum rostr. (1 T 2 5 ) 2^; thor. 2; elytr. 
4-fe. Lat. elytr. 3^ mill. 
9 Paulo brevior et latior. Long, tota 9^; cap. cum rostr. (1^) 2^; 
reliq. part, fere ut in $ . Lat. elytr. 3^ mill. 
Patria : Java (D. Dupont). Mus. Bowring, Saunders et Jekel. 
This species bears a great resemblance to Apod, tranquebaricus 
in sculpture and maculation of thorax and elytra, but the blackish 
maculee are spread over many more parts of the body; the thorax 
is shorter, not so straightly conic, and, above all, the head is much 
shorter, thicker and more convex. The whole of the sides of the thorax 
underneath is black or dark fuscous. The humeral macula and 
the subscutellar spot common to both elytra are distant from one 
another, only united by a thin obscure basal line; the large transverse 
marking in the middle of the length is lateral, rather distant and sepa- 
