ENDELUS SNELLEMANNI. 165 



NOTE XXXVIII. 



ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF BUPRESTIDES 

 EROM SUMATRA. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



1. End el us Snellemanni^ sp. u. 



Length 5,5 mm., breadth at the shoulders 2,5 mm. — 

 Head : the clypeus golden red ; the face bright bronzy green 

 with a golden hue ; the vertex golden with fiery red tinges ; 

 the mandibles black; the antennae bronzy. Pronotum 

 golden with fiery red tinges. Scutellum and elytra golden 

 green , the latter narrowly black along the suture , the extreme 

 lateral margin and at the apex. Under surface of the body 

 black, somewhat bronzy, the femora of the intermediate 

 and posterior legs bronzy green ; the central portion of the 

 prosternum golden. 



Head wide, shallowly and distantly punctured, widely 

 excavated between the eyes, the excavation with a small 

 but deep oval impression at the top of the face , continued 

 across the vertex by a narrow longitudinal channel. Pro- 

 thorax transverse , the sides which are slightly raised , 

 very slightly divergent towards the base; the latter bisi- 

 nuate, the median lobe in front of the scutellum broadly 

 truncate and slightly emarginate; the disc with a large 

 but shallow transverse impression on the basal half, in 

 front of which the disc is finely and very distantly punc- 



P^otes from the Ley den. Museum. 



