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TNSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. 
base and margin. Legs ochraceous-flavous ; claws infuscate ; posterior 
thighs deeply punctate and black at the apical third of their length. 
Belongs to my Group IV. 
Apoderus rihumeratus, JeJcel. 
Attenuatus , deplanatus , parum nitidus , testaceus , in elytris sanguineo- 
saturatus; ore , oculis, maculis sex thoracis , scutelli macula apicali , 
elytrorum humeris spinosis , spinis quatuor maculisque tredecim , 
pygidii maculis duabus tribusque pectoris utrinque , femorum 
quatuor posticorum macula ante-apicali nigris; capite breviter 
globoso , evidenter canaliculalo, froute tristriata ; thorace valde 
trunsverso profunde canaliculate ; elytris basi utrinque spinosis , 
postice valde attenuatis , strm punctate-crenatis, inlerstiis anguslis , 
convexis , alternis dorsi externisque elevatioribus. 
Long, tota 10 mill.; rostr. 1; cap. sine coll, (^j) 1-^; thor. 2-^; 
elytr. 5 T 8 5 mill. Lat. cap. 1 T S 5 ; thor. 2y 5 g ; elytr. 4 ^; elevat. 
capit. 1-^ mill. 
Patria : India Orientalis. 
The largest and flattest species of my Group V.; indeed, the largest 
in elytra of the Apoderidce known to me. 
Rostrum and head glossy, obsoletely punctulate. Thorax transverse; 
apex thinly marginate, truncate; sides abruptly roundly ampliate, 
straightened at the basal striga, which is duplicate and strongly sinuate ; 
flat, plicate-rugose, deeply canaliculate ; adorned with six black maculae: 
four transversely placed above the basal striga (two dorsal, one on each 
side underneath), another on each side of the apical margin, very small, 
lateral. Scutellum transverse, shortly subtriangular,, with the apex 
slightly bilobate; rugose, with a large median macula narrowed towards 
the base, Elytra very ample, each semicircularly rounded at the apex; 
punctures of the rows alternated with transverse subgranose crenulations, 
having the appearance of a close clathration ; interstices narrow, the 
alternate of the disk and the lateral more elevated, subcosliform; 
base having under the angle of the thorax a subperpendicular con- 
color spine; spine of the shoulder and two strong conic dorsal 
