182 PACHYTERIA BICOLOR. 



The underside. The prothoracic intercoxal process is plain , 

 arched up nearly as high as the coxae, smooth, shining, 

 punctured near the edges, depressed behind the coxae, 

 the extremity being developed into a very small, flat, 

 slightly dilated process, the posterior edge of which is a 

 little emarginate (no tubercle). 



The mesosternum is broad , smooth , shining , very spar- 

 sely punctate, transversely depressed in front, raised be- 

 tween the coxae to their level where it becomes flat and 

 cut off square at the end, this hinder part is slightly seri- 

 ceous and scarcely punctured (there is no V-shaped recess) ^). 



The metasteruum and abdomen are sparsely and evenly 

 punctate, the sides and front of metasternum are clothed 

 with a delicate grey silky pubescence. The l^t, 2id and 

 3i"<l segments of abdomen have transverse bands of similar 

 pubescence, the band entire on the l^*, interrupted in 

 the middle on the 2nd and S^^^ segments. The 5th segment 

 is deeply and roundly emarginate behind. The last segment 

 is small, oval, convex in front where it is ferrugineous 

 and scarcely any punctures. — This form seems to indi- 

 cate a cT. 



I conclude therefore from the peculiar form and punc- 

 tuation of the underside of the thorax , the differences in 

 form of the pro- and mesosternal processes, and the dif- 



1) The form of the presternum and mesosternum of P. bicolor Parry is almost 

 exactly the same in F. fasciata Fabr. , tricolor Newm. , bimaculata White and 

 rnbripeytnis Hope , also in three other species which I have , unnamed. (A. Fry). 



Fachyteria Hilgeli Dist. is the only species which I know to have the pro- 

 and mesosternum more or less similarly shaped as P. Borrei (tubercle and V-shaped 

 impression), though I have, besides P. Hügeli, examined no less than two 

 thirds of the described species, \iz.: fasciata Fabr. (I have not been fortunate 

 enough to have an opportunity to compare Schröter's description and figure of 

 Ceramhyx populnezis which is mentioned in the Munich Catalogue as a synonym 

 of this species), tricolor Newm. (= dimidiata Guer.), equestris Newm., dimi- 

 diata Westw. (specifically distinct ivom fasciata Fabr. but closely allied to Sckeep- 

 makeri Rits.) , voluptuosa Thoms. , Lambii Pasc. , insigniia Pasc. , ochracea Wa- 

 terh. , ruficollis Waterh. (= collaris Har.), javana Bates { = puncticollis'^\i'&^, 

 riigosicollis Rits., afp^nis Rits., parallela Rits., and 5(?^eÉp»jflAm Rits. , as well 

 as the four following new species. (C. Ritsema Cz.). 



Notes from the I-ieyden IMuseum, "Vol. X. 



