APRIONA FASCIATA. 



NOTE XIII. 



87 



TWO NEW SPECIES OE THE LONGICORN 

 GENUS APRIONA 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Apriona fasciata , u. sp. V. 



Length 51 mm., breadth at the shoulders 17 mm., length 

 of the antennae 54 mm, — Black, covered with a delicate 

 fulvous pubescence, the elytra however with five naked 

 narrow transverse bands of which the first is situated at 

 one third from the base; along the suture and the lateral 

 margins, on the legs and along the middle of the abdomen 

 the pubescence is of a more greyish colour; the antennae 

 are black, the joints ringed with grey at their base. 



Impunctate. The scape of the antennae slightly scabrous 

 towards the top on the outside. The disc of the pronotum 

 with some transverse waved wrinkles and two patches of 

 small granules; an abbreviated bare stripe runs along the 

 middle ; the lateral spines are long and acute and curved 

 backwards. The scutellum is broadly rounded at the tip. 



The sides of the elytra are nearly parallel, the shoul- 

 ders armed with a pointed granule, the apices obliquely 

 truncate and armed at the sutural as well as at the outer 

 angle with a sharp spine. The basal fifth of the elytra is 

 is covered with large shining black granules which are 

 somewhat smaller and more densely set on the sides where 

 they extend moreover further backward, almost down to 

 the first naked band. 



A single female specimen from Toegoe (West Java) 

 lately has been presented to the Leyden Museum by Mr. J. 

 D. Pasteur. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum , Vol. XX. 



