DISTICHOCERA SUPERBA. 113 



NOTE IV. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND FOUR NEW 

 SPECIES OF LONGICORNS. 



J. R. H. NEERVOORT van de POLL. 



Cerantbycini. 



1. Distich ocera superba, v. d. Poll. 



Q. Caput nigrum, ititer antennarum tuherculos linea longi- 

 tudinaliter impressum , in frorite et in vertice puhe aureo-fusca 

 tectum; antennarum articulus primus niger , ceteri atro-caerulei. 

 Prothorax , scutellum , elytra , pro- , meso- , et metasternum 

 laete ferruginea , omnino tomento aureo-fusco ohsita. Pro- 

 thorax suhtrapezoidalis , antice valde angustatus , postice an- 

 gulis late rotundatis, in disco leviter gibbösus. Scutellum magnum, 

 semicirculare. Elytra ad humeros oblique truncata, apicem 

 versus gradatim angustata , ad apicem truncata , suturam versus 

 incurvata, partem apicalem abdominis liaud obtegentia ; sin- 

 gula elytra lineis ternis indistincte elevatis. Abdomen atro- 

 caeruleum , pilis minutissimis obtectum ; femora anteriora et 

 intermedia , genubus nigris eicceptis , ferruginea , femora postica , 

 tibiae et tarsi omnia atro-caerulea. 



Length 30 mm. (the uncovered portion of the abdomen 

 included) , breadth at the shoulders 8 mm., length of the 

 antennae 19 mm. 



Head longitudinally impressed between the anten nary 

 tubers , black , covered in front and on the vertex with a 

 velvety reddish-brown pubescence, eyes red-brown; the 

 antennae in comparison with those of the other species, 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseuin, "Vol. IX. 



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