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APODERUS SP. 
Reference :—Provisionally named as Ajoderous Sp. 
Classification: —Order, COLEOPTERA, Family, Curculionidae. 
Descriptions 
The eggs are pale yellow in colour with a glistening surface, 
and about the size of a large pin’s head. I have not yet seen 
the larva, It will probably be a small, whitish, curved, legless 
grub, : 
The female beetle is similar in colouring to the male but 
is Jarger, being about a quarter of an inch in length, while the 
male is one-sixth of aninch. The general colour throughout 
the insect is a bright golden yellow. Head, thorax, and elytra 
are edged with black except at the outer upper edges of the 
elytra where they are golden yellow. Snout and eyes are 
black. Antenne yellow at the base and furnished with black 
knobbed ends. Forehead between the eyes black. Elytra 
channelled and they have three black patches in the form of a 
triangle on their upper halves, the patch at the apex being at 
the anterior end: the elytra are edged with black on their inner 
margins and the anterior outer corner of each bears a light 
brown spot; they'do not completely join at their bases, leaving 
several body segments exposed, Under surface of the prothorax 
between the coxz a darker yellow-brown. Legs bright golden 
yellow. PI. III, fig. 1 a, shows dorsal and side views of the ? 
beetle, and J, dorsal view of the ¢, 
Life history. 
The beetle appears on the wing in June. From the 18th to 
2oth of the month I found it in abundance actively engaged 
in laying its eggs. Ina few cases the beetles were seen to 
be pairing, but this stage was evidently nearly over, as was 
evidenced by the fact that alarge number of eggs had been 
already laid. My observations showed me that never more 
than one egg is laid on any one leaf, The mother beetle 
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