APHRODTSIUM ALBARDAE. 193 



NOTE XVII. 



DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE 

 LONGICORN GROUP CALLICHROMINI. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Together with a female specimen of Pachyteria afinis 

 Rits. from Tjilatjap (South Java) Mr. W. Albarda present- 

 ed to the Leyden Museum a Callichromid from the same 

 locality , which is allied to Callichroma Grijithii Hope , now 

 ranged under the generic title Aphrodisium. As I believe 

 this species to be undescribed I propose to call it 



Aphrodisium A lb a r da e, n. sp. 



Length from the antennary tubers to the end of the 

 elytra ST^/^ mm. ; length of the elytra 27 mm.; breadth at 

 the shoulders 10 mm. ; breadth of the thorax from point 

 to point of the lateral tubercles 8'/4 mm. 



Head and thorax nearly glabrous , elytra very densely 

 covered with a very short pubescence which is black on 

 the dark coloured parts , yellow on the light coloured parts. 

 Head thorax and scutellum black , the labrum brown , the 

 elytra dark green with two transverse yellow bands: one, 

 placed a little before the middle, broad and somewhat 

 prolonged backwards along the lateral margins ; the other , 

 not quite midway between the first band and the apex 

 of the elytra, narrow and curved. The four basal joints 



Notes from tlie Leyden ^Vfuseum, Vol, X. 



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