DEMONAX VËTHI. 181 



NOTE XXVI. 



A NE¥ SPECIES OF THE LONGICORN GENUS 

 DEMONAX, THOMSON 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Demonax Vet hi, nov. spec. 



Length 10 mm. — Elongate, slender, greenish yellow, 

 with black markings on the prothorax and elytra. — Head 

 covered all over with greenish yellow pubescence, provided 

 with an impressed line along the middle of the face , the 

 latter slightly narrowed between the eyes, the front margin of 

 the clypeus nearly straight. Antennae not extending to the 

 apex of the elytra , very thinly covered with greenish yellow 

 pubescence which even disappears on the apical half, the 

 apical joints dark fuscous. — Prothorax elongate-ovate , 

 slightly narrower than the elytra at the base , reticulate- 

 punctate , covered with greenish yellow pubescence , with 

 the exception of two more or less triangular black spots 

 about the middle of the disk which have their tip directed 

 outward; besides the yellow pubescence, pale fulvous erect 

 hairs are present on the thorax. Scutellum of a regular 

 triangular shape , entirely covered with greenish yellow 

 pubescence. — Elytra distinctly narrowed behind the shoul- 

 ders , covered with greenish yellow pubescence and showing 

 the following black markings : each elytron on its basal 

 half an elongate zero which narrowly touches the ba- 

 sal- and broadly the outer margin of the elytra; and con- 

 Notes from the Leyden Miuseum, "Vol. VI. 



