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NOTE XXXIX. 



DESCRIPTION OE A NEW SPECIES OE THE AUSTRA- 

 LIAN LONGICORN GENUS BRACHYTRIA, NEWM. 



J. R. H. NEERVOORT van de POLL. 



Four species have been described belonging to the genus 

 Brachyfria , which are all pretty similar in general ap- 

 pearance and show almost the same vjiriable pattern of 

 white spots on the elytra. As a matter of convenience 

 they may be divided in two groups , viz. : species with 

 the elytra and legs concolor {centralis Pasc, gulosa Newm., 

 varia Waterh.) and species with the elytra and legs bicolor 

 (picta Waterh.). To the second section I may now add a 

 very distinct species with the thorax short and broad and 

 very deeply emarginated laterally below the middle, its 

 outline mimicking the thorax of the genus TypJiocesis. 

 According to this peculiarity I propose to call this new 

 species 



Brachytria thoracica, v. d. Poll. 



Length 12^/2 mm., breadth at the shoulders 3 mm., 

 length of the antennae 17 mm. 



Head pale red , with the eyes , the tip of the mandibles 

 and the palpi black ; sparingly punctured on the vertex , 

 more coarsely so between the eyes, where the front is 

 also deeply grooved in a longitudinal direction , with a 

 transverse glabrous spot before the labrum. Antennae dull 



Notes from the Leyden INXuseuxn, Vol. IX.. 



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