46 APAÏETICA BRUNNIPES. 



NOTE XVI. 



ON A KEAV SPECIES OF THE GENUS APATETICA , 

 APATETICA BRUNNIPES, FROM SUMATRA. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



To the two known species ') of this remarkable genus 

 of the coleopterous family Silphidae I now add a third , 

 sent over from Sumatra a long time ago by Dr. Salomon 

 Muller. 



The new species , which may bear the name of Apate- 

 tiea hrunnipes, is allied to and of the same form and size 

 as A. nitiduloides Westw., but can easily be distinguished 

 by the different coloration and by the prolonged exterior 

 acute angle of the elytra. 



Apatetica brictmipes , sp. n. 



Length 7 mm. — Head and parts of the mouth dark 

 brown , the face and vertex black ; the five basal joints of the 

 antennae ot a glossy dark brown , the following dull black. 

 Thorax brown , darker towards its centre , the scutellum 

 almost black. Legs reddish brown ; knees , tibiae and 

 tarsi somewhat darker than the coxae and femorae. Elytra of 

 a glossy coppery-purple. Under surface of the body brown, the 

 inflexed margins 'of the elytra and the sides of the meso- 

 and metasternum darker. 



1) Apatetica lebioides Westw. {Cab. Orient. Eatom. p. 86; pi. XLl , fig. 9) 

 from the Himalayan regions; and A. nitiduloides Westw. {T/ies. Eutom. O.Kun. 

 J). 69; pi. V, fig. 11; froiri Java. 



rWolee from the Leydeii IMuseiim. 



