APHANISTICUS KRUGERI. 237 



NOTE L. 



A NEW JAVANESE SPECIES OF THE BUPRESTID 

 GENUS APHANISTICUS, LATR. 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Aphanisticus K rüg er i, nov. spec. 



The nearest ally of this species will prove to be A. pa- 

 radoxus H. Deyr. from the island of Makian (Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Beige. VIII. p. 223, and p. 227, pi. 4 fig. 20). 



It has a length of about 3 — 2 l j 2 mm. and is of a blackish 

 bronze colour, bright bronze on the head and pronotum. — 

 The whole insect is covered with an extremely fine and 

 dense sculpture which is only visible with the aid of a 

 lens of strong power. 



The head is short, narrowly and rather shallowly exca- 

 vated between the eyes , the inner orbits slightly produced 

 in front, which makes the head (seen from above) angu- 

 larly notched at the anterior margin. It is smooth, provided 

 with a few large but shallow punctures at the bottom of 

 the frontal excavation and on the cheeks. 



Prothorax transverse , widest about the middle , and wider 

 at the base than at the tip ; the sides flattened , regularly 

 rounded, and very slightly (almost inconspicuously) con- 

 stricted just before the base ; the anterior angles acute and 

 protruding, the basal ones subrectangular and with the 

 margins turned upwards ; the base bisinuate , provided in 

 the middle with a broadly rounded lobe ; the strongly 

 convex disc is separated from the anterior margin by an 

 impressed line of large but shallow punctures and from 

 the basal lobe by a distinct transverse impression ; the disc 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XI. 



