88 APRIONA BURUENSIS. 



Apriona buruensis , n. sp. cf. 



Length 52 mm., breadth at the shoulders 18 mm. — 

 Black, the elytra dark brown; covered with a delicate 

 greyish brown pubescence which is denser on the sides of 

 the metasternum and of the abdomen where it forms an 

 indistinct dirty white vitta. The antennae are rather slender, 

 distinctly longer than the body and entirely sooty black, 

 not ringed with grey. 



Irapunctate. The scape of the antennae slightly scabrous 

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

 with very few transverse wrinkles, the lateral spines acute 

 and straight. The scutellum broadly truncate posteriorly. 



The base of the elytra is provided, solely on the shoulder 

 region , with some shining black granules ; the shoulders 

 are armed with a distinct tooth; the apices are obliquely 

 truncate, their outer angle is rounded, the sutural one 

 provided with a short spine. 



The above described male specimen , originating from the 

 island of Burn (Dr. Bernstein), was regarded by the late 

 Dr. Snellen van Vollenhoven as belonging to Apriona 

 humeralis Kaup , but , according to Mr. Neervoort van de 

 Poll who has seen Prof. Kaup's types in the Museum at 

 Darmstadt , the last quoted species does not belong to the 

 genus Apriona but is synonymous with Jothocera tomen- 

 tosa (Buq.). 



Ley den Museum, March 1898. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX. 



