CATOXANTHA PURPURASCENS. 



NOTE XVII. 



ON A NKW SPECIES OF BUPllESTIDE, CAÏOXANÏIIA 

 PURPURASCENS, FROM BORNEO. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



This beautiful species , for wliicb I propose the name of Ca- 

 toxantha purpurascens ^ belongs to Lacordaire's Section A') 

 which contains at present as far as I know seven species , viz. 

 hicolor Fabr., nigricornis H. Deyr. and Mouhotii E. Saund. 

 (species with a swollen yellowish patch near each posterior 

 angle of the thorax) , and DalenU v. d. Hoev., Mniszechii 

 H. Deyr., hemixantha v. Voll. and I'ajah Gestro (species 

 without the swollen yellowish thoracical patches). The new 

 species agrees with the four last mentioned species in wanting 

 the swollen thoracical patches , but differs chiefly in color and 

 in not having the yellowish spot on the elytra. 



Catoxantha purpurascens , sp. n. 



Length 54 mm., breadth at the shoulders 16 mm. 



Head purplish red , witli a greenish tinge between the 

 antennae and at the vertex , the labrum green ; the anten- 

 nae black, the first joint coppery-bronze, the three follow- 

 ing spotted with that colour. The disc of the thorax 

 dark purple, the bottom of the punctures on the lateral 

 margins bright green. The elytra are of the same pur- 



1) Lacordaire, GeiKni dcs Coléoptères (Suites a Buffon). Tome IV. p. 17, 

 note 2. 



Notes ironi the Leyclen Musiemn. 



