'JlU DIURÜS liRYTIlRÜPUS. 



NOTE XXVI. 



THREE NEW SPECIES OF THE BRENTHID GENUS 



DIURÜS, PASCOE 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



1. Diurus erythropus ^ n. sp. 9 ')• 



Allied to D. furcillatus Gylh. ^) by the short head , by 

 the shortness of the narrowed portion of' the rostrum , by 

 the short and rather stout antennae, and by the apical 

 declivity of the elytra , but distinguished by the narrowed 

 apex and the approximate tails of the elytra, by the red 

 colored legs and antennae (the three apical joints of the 

 latter excepted) etc. 



Length (the rostrum and tails included) 26 mm. — Deep 

 dull black, the legs and the antennae (the latter with the 

 exception of the three apical joints which are nearly black) 

 dark red, the narrowed portion of the rostrum and the 

 tails dark reddish brown. 



The head and basal portion of the rostrum are more 

 slender than in furcillatus, very sparingly provided with 

 white scales of different size , longitudinally impressed , and 

 provided with a fovea between the eyes ; the head is short , 

 the eyes only once their diameter from the posterior an- 



1) The mak sex in Diiirtix is easily recofjni/.eil by the shape of the 4th 

 abdominal segment whieh is shorter than the 3rd and strongly contracted in 

 the middle. 



2) See the postscript. 



^otes from the Leyden Rluseum , Vol. TV. 



