214 DIURUS ANTENNATUS. 



3. DiuTHS antennatus , n. sp. (ƒ. 



Strongly resembling D. furcillatus Gylh. but -narrower, 

 and easily distinguished from that species by the 9-jointed 

 antennae of which moreover the 5th joint is somewhat an- 

 gularly curved outwards , and by the elongate tails of the 

 elytra. 



The head is short, the eyes only once their diameter 

 from the posterior angles. The basal portion of the ros- 

 trum and the antennae are much more elongate and more 

 slender; the latter about as long as the head and rostrum 

 and half the prothorax taken together; the two basal joints 

 are short , the first a little larger than the 2nd ; the 3rd , 

 4th and 5th elongate and about equal in length to one 

 another, the 5th joint moreover almost angularly curved 

 outwards; the 6th, 7th and 8th joints short and likewise 

 about equal in length to one another; the 9th or apical 

 joint a little longer than the three preceding joints taken 

 together, obtusely pointed at the tip and slightly curved. 

 The tails are elongate , rather distant at the base and con- 

 vergent. The two basal segments of the abdomen are im- 

 pressed along the middle; the 3rd and 4th are very short, 

 the 4th moreover strongly contracted in the middle. 



Hab. Java (Prof. Blume). — A single specimen (male), 

 which measures from the tip of the rostrum to that of the 

 elytra (the tails excluded as they are injured in my spe- 

 cimen) 23 mm. 



Leyden Museum, May 9th, 1882. 



Postscript. The type specimen of Diurus furcillatus (a 

 female) has been kindly lent to me by its present posses- 

 sor, Mr. G. Power. It is the specimen described by Gyl- 

 lenhal in Schönherr's Genera et Species Curcidionidxim. Tom. 

 I , p. 359 and figured by Guérin-Méneville in his Iconogra- 

 pJiie du Rl-gne animal. Insectes , PI. 36 , fig. 8. 



Diurus forcipatus Westwood (Cabinet of Oriental Ento- 

 mology , p. 31 ; pi. 15 , fig. 3) has incorrectly been regar- 



jNote» from the Leydeu Museutn , "Vol. 1"\''. 



