ERYTHRUS ROTHSCHILDI. 



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NOTE XII. 



TAVO NEW SPECIES 

 OF EXOTIC LONGICORN BEETLES 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Erythrus Rothschildi ^ n. sp. 



Length 30 millim. ; breadth at the shoulders 7 millim. — 

 Above dull red , the mandibles and the vertex of the head 

 as well as the antennae black ; the anterior half of the 

 pronotum provided with two elongate slightly curved and 

 divergent black spots which bear on their posterior end a 

 nipple-shaped tubercle; between these tubercles and the 

 base of the pronotum , but somewhat more outwardly , a 

 slightly raised punctiform black dot is present; the scutel- 

 lum is covered with red and with black hairs. — Body 

 beneath dull black , the extreme hinder margin of the four 

 basal ventral segments very shining ; the legs subnitid , 

 black , the anterior and intermediate coxae red ; moreover 

 a band across the base of the prosternum and its front 

 margin, as well as the throat, red. 



Elongate , rather broad , the elytra nearly parallel. The 

 head small, prolonged anteriorly, the iuterantennary ridge, 

 which is divided by a deeply impressed line, is separated 

 from the clypeus by a narrow curved groove; the anteonae 

 are short, having a leugth of not quite two thirds of that 

 of the elytra; the scape, which is densely punctured, is 

 about equal in length to the 2nd and 3rd joint taken 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseiim, Vol. XVI. 



