PACHYTERIA PRYERI. 183 



ferent form of the scutellum , that your insect is not bico- 

 lor Parry but a new species". 



From Mr. Oliver E. Janson I received for identification 

 two species of Pachyteria captured by Mr. W. B. Pryer 

 at Elopura (North Borneo). One of these proved to belong 

 to P. ochracea Waterh. (Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. Stt 

 ser. Vol. TI (1878) p. 136j, the other to an undescribed 

 species , allied , according to the description and figure , to 

 P. virescens Pasc. (Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1866. p. 519; 

 pi. 43 , fig. 2) but at once distinguished by the brown coloured 

 basal half of the elytra and by the smooth stripe along the 

 middle of the disk of the pronotum by which the transverse 

 wrinkles are interrupted. I propose to name it after its captor. 



Pachyteria P r y e r i^ n. sp. 



Length from the anten nary tubers to the end of the 

 elytra 35 mm. ; length of the elytra 24^/2 mm. ; breadth at 

 the shoulders 11mm.; breadth of the thorax from point 

 to point of the lateral teeth 9 mm. 



Nearly glabrous. Head bronzy green , with the excep- 

 tion of the labrum and mandibles which are black, the 

 latter however with metallic tinges on the sides at the 

 base. The scape of the antennae is of a darker green co- 

 lour than the head , the four following joints are dark 

 blue and densely covered with a jet-black pubescence, 

 the six apical joints yellow. The prothorax dark brownish 

 red, bronzy green at the underside. Scutellum glossy green. 

 The elytra with the basal portion ("not fully the basal half) 

 light brown , the rest bronzy green ; the line of demar- 

 kation between these two colours oblique. Body beneath 

 and legs bronzy green ; the knees , apex of the femora and 

 metatarsus of the four posterior legs dark blue , the three 

 last joints of these tarsi black; the anterior tarsi black, 

 covered on the upper surface with a yellowish pile inter- 

 mixed with some black stifiish hairs. 



T^^otes from tlae X^eyden IMuseuiu, Vol. X. 



