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NOTE XX. 



A NEW SPECIES OE THE BUPRESTID GENUS 

 CHRYSOCHROA EROM SUMATRA 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Chrysochroa Vethii, u. sp. 



Length 47 mm., width of the shoulders of the elytra 

 14 mm. — Very shining; bright golden green , with bluish 

 reflexions according to the light. Thorax with a narrow 

 pale golden red dorsal line, which widens a little at the 

 front margin. The apical margin of the elytra, and the 

 abdomen (especially towards the end) golden with strong 

 coppery-red reflexions. The antennae black , with the ex- 

 ception of the three basal joints , the first joint being 

 bright gi'een , the second and third dark purplish with 

 shades of green especially towards the tip of the third 

 joint. The anterior tarsi , the front side of the anterior 

 tibiae and the two apical joints of the intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi dark purplish. 



Head finely punctured behind the eyes and on the ver- 

 tex , excavated and rugose between the eyes , with a very 

 deep impression ])etween their superior portions; on the 

 vertex a deeply impressed longitudinal line is present. The 

 antennae hardly extend beyond the middle of the lateral 

 margins of the prothorax. 



Prothorax widest at the base , once and a half as broad 



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