RHYNCHOPHORUS SWIERSTRAE. 151 



NOTE XV. 

 A NEW SPECIES OE RHYNCHOPHORUS 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Rhynchophorus Sioierstrae, n. sp. cf. 



Length (without rostrum) 41 mm., that of the rostrum 

 11 mm.; breadth at the shoulders 17 mm. 



Pronotum and elytra dull brown, the former narrowly 

 margined with black and provided on the middle of the 

 disk with an elongate ovate black patch which is divided 

 in a longitudinal direction by a brown stripe; the elytra 

 likewise are narrowly margined with black, which colour 

 widens out on the shoulders and just behind the middle 

 of the lateral margin; the scutellum and a narrow edge 

 along the suture black ; the pygidium dull black , fringed 

 at the tip with fulvous hairs ; the head , rostrum and an- 

 tennae as well as the under surface, glossy black; the 

 rostrum above with a brown spot at the extreme base, 

 and the basal abdominal segment with a brown spot at 

 the sides ; the legs are glossy ; the coxae , trochanters and 

 tarsi are black ; the femora and tibiae ferruginous , black 

 at base and tip and along the under surface, which is 

 moreover densely fringed with fulvous hairs, which are 

 short on the posterior femora. 



The rostrum is slightly waved on the under surface, 

 strongly so on the upper surface which makes it thinnest 

 about the middle; it has strong punctures in front of the 

 usual interocular pit , then it becomes strongly scabrous ; 



Notes irom th.e ILieyden IVIuseum, Vol. XJLII. 



