PACHYTERTA VANDEPOLLI. 49 



NOTE XIII. 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE LONGICORN GENUS 

 PACHYTERIA, SERV. 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Pachyteria V an dep o Hi, uov. spec. Q. 



A small species which is allied to Pachyteria parallela 

 Rits. (Notes Leyd. Mus. 1881. p. 36). 



Length 19 mm.; breadth at the shoulders 5 rum. — The 

 head, the prothorax and the scutellum bright metallic green; 

 the smaller basal half of the elytra ochreous , with faint 

 purplish tiuges , the greater apical half dark bluish green , 

 brighter towards the apex, and provided just before its 

 middle with a slightly waved, narrow, transverse, ochreous 

 band which touches neither the sutural nor the outer mar- 

 gins; the two basal joints and the basal third of the 3rd 

 joint of the antennae black , the remaining joints ochreous ; 

 the meso- and the metasternum as well as the legs and 

 the abdomen violaceous blue, the latter tinted with green. 

 The vertex of the head , a transverse band and a semi- 

 circular spot on the pronotum , and the dark coloured 

 part of the elytra densely covered with a very short black 

 pubescence , which is however sparser on the apex of the 

 elytra; the anterior tarsi brown and as well as the inside 

 of the tibiae of the same pair of legs covered with a pale 

 glittering pubescence. The undersurface of the body covered 

 with a silvery pile forming bands across the hind margin 

 of the four basal abdominal segments. 



The inter-autenuary ridge, which is divided by a deep 



Notes froiri the Leyden Museum, Vol. XI. 



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