114 DISTICHOCERA SUPERBA. 



very slightly serrate , dull bluish-black , the scape black. 



The prothorax , the scutellum , the elytra and the pro-, 

 meso- aud metasteruum of a pale reddish-brown color , clo- 

 sely covered with a velvety shiuing pile of the same color , 

 though much clearer and with bright golden tinges. 



The prothorax is subtrapeziform , rather strongly nar- 

 rowed towards the top , the hinder angles broadly rounded , 

 the sides somewhat gibbous, the disk shows some indis- 

 tinct gibbosities and wrinkles. 



The scutellum is large and semi-circular. 



The elytra are obliquely truncated at the shoulders, 

 gradually narrowed behind , and truncated at the apex in 

 a curved line which is directed inwardly; each elytron is 

 provided with three indistinct raised longitudinal lines. 



The abdomen is dark blackish-blue , covered with very 

 minute hairs of that color; above it remains partly unco- 

 vered by the truncated elytra. The femora of the forder 

 and middle legs are ferrugineous with the knees black, the 

 posterior legs and the tibiae and tarsi of the anterior and 

 intermediate legs bluish-black. 



This species , decidedly the most beautiful of the genus , 

 is not nearly allied to any of the already known species; 

 moreover it is so very distinctly colored that a comparison is 

 superfluous. 



The single female specimen I possess , is labelled » Clarence 

 River (New South Wales)." 



Observation. In the foregoing volume of the » Notes 

 from the Leyden Museum" (p. 222) I made already the 

 observation that Distichocera mutator Pasc. is identical with 

 Distichocera Kirhyi Newm. Having now carefully compared 

 that species with all the other known species of the genus, 

 I observed such striking differences, chiefly in the struc- 

 ture of the antennae , that it is impossible to place it to- 

 gether with those species into one and the same genus, 

 and I therefore propose a new genus for its reception , 

 under the name of Paradistichocera. 



Notes irom th.e Leyden IMuseutn , "Vol. llC 



