224 BIMIA MACULICORNIS. 



The prothorax is pale yellow, thickly punctured, with 

 some large gibbosities on the disk, the sides are provided 

 with an obtuse spine, the front margin is straight, the 

 base forms a waved line. 



The scutellum is black, rounded at the apex, somewhat 

 concave , with a few punctures. 



The elytra are strongly narrowed towards the apices, 

 which are rounded, obtuse at the suture and strongly diver- 

 gent; the basal portion is pale yellow, the larger apical 

 half brownish-black , all over thickly covered with fine 

 punctures , moreover each elytron showing three faintly 

 elevated lines. 



The undersurface is straw-coloured with the meso- and 

 metathorax deep black , densely punctured , more closely 

 at the breast; the legs are yellow with the knees, the tips 

 of the tibiae and the tarsi black. 



Besides by its coloration this species differs from Bimia 

 bicolor White , in having the apical portion of each elytron 

 much narrower. 



Bimia femoralis Saund. As already supposed by Lacor- 

 daire this species must be regarded as a variety of Bimia 

 bicolor White. My own specimens and those of the British 

 Museum form a series , showing all the intermediate 

 forms between the slight differences in colour of both 

 species. 



^otes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. "VIII. 



