178 PACHYTERIA BORREL 



Pachyteria B o r r e i^ n. sp. 



The specimen which , as already is said , originates from 

 Java (coll. Du Bus) is somewhat mutilated : of the right 

 antenna the four basal joints , and the fifth partially , are 

 present, of the left one only the two basal joints, and 

 the third partially; the right tibia and tarsus of the first 

 pair of legs are wanting , and of the abdomen the four 

 basal segments , and the fifth partially , are present. 



Length from the front margin of the inter-antennary 

 ridge to the end of the elytra 40 '/g mm. — Length of 

 the elytra 30 ^/g , breadth at the shoulders 12 mm. — Breadth 

 of the thorax from point to point of the spines Q^/g mm. 



As to the shape it agrees pretty well with the figure 

 of Pachyteria hicolor Parry (I. c.) ; so the outline of the 

 thorax quite agrees , but the lateral tubercles , although 

 small , are slender and more acutely pointed. Moreover in 

 the new species, notwithstandiug it is of about the same 

 length as the figure (there is only a difference of ^/g mm.), 

 the elytra , which inter alia are very broadly and con- 

 jointly rounded at the apex, are somewhat more elongate, 

 and the costae are but very inconspicuously raised , whe- 

 reas the scutellum is less elongate, not acutely pointed at 

 the tip. 



The anterior margin of the clypeus , the labrum and 

 the frontside of mandibles are light brown , the face and 

 cheeks pitchy brown, the vertex black with tinges of blue 

 and purple; the thorax and scutellum dark steelblue; the 

 basal third of the elytra yellow , the remaining two thirds 

 metallic green , the line of demarkation between these two 

 colours nearly straight; the basal half of all the femora is 

 bright reddish brown , the apical half dark pitchy approach- 

 ing to black with faint violet tinges , whereas the tibiae 

 and tarsi of all the legs are of the same brownish yellow 

 colour as the antennal joints which are still present; the 

 three apical joints of the tarsi are somewhat darker and 

 the clawhooks dark brown. The whole undersurface (with 



ISotes from the Leyden IMuseum , Vol. X. 



