APHRODISIUM ALBARDAE. 195 



The undersurface of the head below the mouth with a 

 few transverse wrinkles and a few large punctures. The 

 metasternum and abdomen covered with an exceedingly 

 fine sculpture and a few dispersed punctures. The apical 

 margin of the 5*^ and 6* abdominal segments broadly 

 and deeply emarginate. The femora are finely and very 

 densely punctured on the upperside , beneath the punctu- 

 res are large and sparsely set; on the tibiae the punc- 

 tuation is fine, intermixed with a few larger punctures. 

 The legs are elongate, the hind tibiae distinctly sinuate. 



The prosternum between the anterior coxae is narrow 

 and provided with a raised keel along the middle. 



Hah. South Java: Tjilatjap. — A single specimen (cf) 

 in the Leyden Museum, presented by Mr. W. Albarda, 

 to whom I dedicate this species. 



Callichroma clirysogaster^ n. sp. (ƒ. 



This species may afterwards prove to be fully entitled 

 to base a new genus upon , and I have only provisionally 

 ranged it under the generic title Callichroma, 



It shows a remarkable resemblance to Mecaspis atripen- 

 nis Hope, from West Africa, the distribution of the co- 

 lours being the same : black or greenish black , with the 

 antennae and legs rusty red , and the undersurface densely 

 covered with a sericeous pubescence. In Mecaspis however 

 the prosternum is tuberculate between the anterior coxae, 

 the anterior and intermediate femora are notched at the 

 tip , the mandibles are elongate and the antennae more 

 slender. 



Length from the inter-antennary ridge to the end of 

 the elytra 25 mm., length of the elytra 18 mm.; breadth 

 of the thorax from point to point of the lateral spines 

 6^/4 mm.; breadth of the shoulders 7 mm. 



Head nearly glabrous , a few yellowish hairs on the face 

 and cheeks ; black with violet tinges , the frontmargin of 

 the clypeus, the labrum, the mandibles, and the palpi 



Notes from ttie Leyden Museum , 'Vol. X. 



