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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Apooerus vitticeps, Jekel. 
Fulvo-ochraceus , infra plus minusve dilutius ; capite viltis quatuor , 
thorace dorso et lateribus fere omnino , scutello , elytrorum margine 
irregulari, tuberculis quatuor dorsalibus , fascia postica apiceque , 
pectore lateribus late , femorum macula semiannulari ante-apicali 
nigris aut nigricanlibus. 
Long, tota 6-f 0 mill. Long, rostr. ^ ; cap. (sine coll. to) 1-to > th° r * 1$ ; 
elytr. mill. Lat. cap. 1^; thor. 1-^; hum. 3 ; pone med. 
elytr. 3^ mill. 
Patria : China. Mus. Bowring, Saunders et Jekel. 
Very similar to Apod, gemmatus and gemmosus , hut quite differently 
coloured and tuberculate. Rostrum short, flavousor ochraceous-fulvous ; 
apex truncate-sinuate, with the middle narrowly — rather deeply — 
angularly emarginate; the two elevated ridges between the antennee 
prominent, black. Labrum black in the middle. Mandibulce fuscous. 
Antennae uniformly ochreous-fulvous. Head shortly ovate-subconical; 
forehead strongly punctate, separated behind the eyes by a transverse 
impression ; vertex smooth, with two large approximate vittse on the 
middle, and another lateral, black. Thorax moderately rounded at the 
sides, slightly straightened to the basal striga, which is much elevated, 
evidently duplicate, not very broad, very slightly arcuate; slightly con¬ 
vex, rather attenuate anteriorly, strongly obliquely rugose-plicate, with 
a transverse ante-basal tubercle on each side of the middle channel, 
which is obsolete posteriorly; all the upper part and part of the sides 
underneath black, with only three ochreous subpellucid spots on the 
basal striga. Scutellum rather large, transverse, black, deeply punctate, 
with the apex smooth subbilobate-impressed. Elytra straightened 
at the anterior third ; dorsal part punctate-subcrenulate, especially 
posteriorly, the crenulations separating the punctures subtuberculiform ; 
sides deeply foveate; interstices elevated, anteriorly partly—posteriorly 
and laterally entirely—subcostate ; humeri widely truncated, shortly 
spiniform ; two black tubercles on each, one at the anterior fourth, at 
the end of the anterior elevation of the third interstice, middling, 
shortly conic, the other very little behind the middle, very large, rather 
