COLEOPIERA. 
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Patria: Colombo Insulas Ceylon. A. D. Nietner detectus. Mus. 
Bowring, Dohrn, Saunders et Jekel. 
Resembles the preceding in outline and sculpture of the elytra, but 
is much smaller; the coloration is much darker, though lighter than 
in Apod, unicolor. The elytra are less elongate; their depression 
behind the scutellum is deeper (exactly as in Apod, unicolor), and 
the basal impression on the third stria is much shorter, as well as the 
elevation of the next interstice. The thorax of the female is much less 
rounded at the sides. The head is evidently more conical and pro¬ 
portionally broader behind the eyes than in Apod, pallidulus. 
Belongs, of course, to my Group II. 
Apoderus cinctipennis, Jekel. 
Glaber, niiidus, sat deplanatus: pallide rufescens, subtus magis jlaves - 
cens ; ore, oculis, vitta marginali elytrorum lata unguisque nigris; 
capite parum clongato conicoque, convexo , vertice canaliculato ; 
thorace lateribus rotundato, medio canaliculato; elytris seriatim 
punctatis, humeris rotundato-callosis ; pygidio, lateribus pectoris 
et abdominis sat rude punctatis. 
Long. 6^— 7-fe mill. Lat. 2^—3^ mill. 
Var. a. Typus. Vitta marginali elytrorum in medio striam quartam 
non superante, antice posticeque intus paulo ampliata, apicem 
non attingente. 
Var. (3. Vitta marginali elytrorum in medio striam tertiam attingente, 
antice posticeque intus magis ampliata prope suturam excurrente, 
apicem fere totum occupante. 
Patria: Natal. Mus. Bowring, Saunders et Jekel. 
Variable in size: some specimens exceeding the largest Apod. Co- 
ryli ; others being inferior to the smallest of that species. The sexual 
differences in head and thorax are at least as slight as in that species ; 
the head only being a little shorter and more rounded behind; the thorax 
more rounded at the sides in the female. The upper side is much 
flatter, especially the elytra; the thighs are shorter and thicker, more 
clavate; the tibiae evidently, though slightly, incurvate. It resembles 
