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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Apod, submarginalis, Sell., in coloration, but the head is smaller, with 
no crest on the forehead ; the thorax much more rounded at the sides ; 
the interstices of the elytra are flat, See. Head and thorax glossy; the 
latter rather wide, subtransverse. Elytra oblong-subquadrate; shoul¬ 
ders callose, rounded ; rows of punctures deeper at the base, where the 
two ordinary depressions are well marked, with the external of the two 
elevated interstices subcariniform, somewhat oblique and almost reaching 
the middle of the length. 
Belongs to my Group IV. 
Apoderus bistrimaculatus, JeJcel. 
Flavo miniatus , glaber , nitidus ; antennarum jlagello , elytris tibiis 
tarsisque dilutioribus; ore , oculis , maculisque tribus singuli elytri 
nigris ; capite thoraceque brevibus , convexis , rotundatis ; elytris 
punctis distantibus seriatis , interstitiis planis , duobus ordinariis 
basalibus latis, parum elevatis ; pygidio pectore abdomineque grosse 
sed non profunde irregulariter punctatis. 
Long, tota 9% mill.; cap. cum rostr. brevissimo (^) 2^; thor. 1^; 
elytr. 5^ mill. Lat. cap. pone oc. 1^; thor. med. 2^; has. 2 T 3 5 ; 
hum. 3^ ; med. elytr. 4 mill. (£). $ latet. 
Patria: India Orientals. 
Larger and flatter than Apod. Coryli, with the head and thorax pro¬ 
portionally shorter than in the female of that species. Rostrum short, 
somewhat narrower than long, longitudinally impressed at the base. 
Head semiglobose, attenuate and rounded behind, with the forehead 
bi-impressed, and the vertex longitudinally slightly canaliculate. An- 
tennee thin, short, hardly reaching the strangulation of the head. 
Thorax transverse, anteriorly truncate, not strangulate ; sides abruptly 
ampliate to the third of the length, then straight to the base, where it is 
scarcely broader than above the middle; posterior striga elevated, 
slightly duplicate, not very broad; convex and above the striga subpul- 
vinate, slightly canaliculate longitudinally, smooth and glossy, as well as 
the head. Elytra broad, subquadrate, slightly depressed behind the 
scutellum ; shoulders obtuse, rounded; nine rows of punctures succes¬ 
sively smaller and shallower towards the apex; the two external, 
