DIMIA MACULICORNIS. 223 



NOTE XXXV. 

 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW AUSTRALIAN LONGICORN. 



BY 



J. R. H. NEERVOORT van de POLL. 



Bimia 7naculicornis , v. d. Poll. 



Elongata , angusta , villosa , nigra elytrorum parte excepta , 

 supra suhopaca , pars in/era nitida. Caput lividum. , man- 

 dibulis et tuherihus anienniferis nigris , crebre punctatum , 

 inter oculos valde sulcatum. Antennae nigrae , articulis 3 — 5 

 Jiavis , apicibus nigris. Prothorax lividus , confertim puncta- 

 tus , disco suhgibboso , lateribus obtuse spinosis , margine an- 

 tico recto , postico undato. Scutellum nigrum , sparsim punc- 

 tatum , apice rotundato. Elytra parte basali livida , parte 

 apicali brunneo-nigra , densissime minutissimeque punctata , 

 apicem versus sensim angustata , apicibus vcdde diversis , ob- 

 tusis ; singula elytra lineis tribus subelevatis. Pars in/era 

 straminea, pectore aterrimo ^ crebre punctata, densius in pec- 

 tore. Pedes jiavi, genibus , tibiarum apicibus, tarsisgue 

 nigris. — Long. 25 mm., lat. ad hum. 7 mm. 



Habitat Victoria. — In mus. nostro. 



Elongate and slender, above dull, beneath shining; with 

 the exception of the black elytral portion entirely covered 

 with long soft yellowish hairs , which become shorter but 

 more closely set at the meso- and metathorax. 



The head is pale yellow , with the mandibles and anten- 

 nary tubers black, closely punctured, deeply grooved in 

 a longitudinal direction between the eyes. The antennae 

 are black with the S^d — 5th joints yellow with black tops; 

 the first five joints are shining, the remainder dull , covered 

 with a short black pubescence. 



Notes from the Leyden IVtuseum , Vol. "VIII. 



