APIIANISTICUS CONSANGUINEUS. 125 



XOTE VUL 

 A NEW SPECIES OF ÏIIE GENUS APHANISTICUS 



(COLEOPTERA : BUPRBSTIDAe) 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



In 1889 I described (Notes Leyd. Mus. XI, p. 237) a 

 Buprestid of the genus Aphanisticus the larva of which 

 was found at Kagok (Tegal : West-Java) mining in the 

 under surface of the leaves of sugar-cane. I named it 

 after its discoverer Aphanisticus Krilgeri. At the same 

 time I gave in the »Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Ento- 

 mologie" (vol. XXXIII , p. XXII) a short notice (with 

 figures) about the larva and the mode of life of this insect. 



Now I am able to describe another species of the same 

 genus, the larva of which is found in Eastern Java (Pa- 

 soeroean) likewise mining in the leaves of sugar-cane. A 

 few specimens of this species, which will be described in 

 this Note under the name of Aphanisticus consanguineus, 

 are sent to me by Dr. L. Zehntner , who is intended to 

 publish a full account concerning the different stages of 

 development and the mode of life elucidated by figures. 



Aphanisticus consanguineus, n. sp. 



It has a length of about 3,5 mm., but is conspicuously 



narrower and consequently of a more elongate shape than 



Krvgeri. Its colour is black, with a faint aeneous tinge 



on head and pronotum. Like Krilgeri the whole insect 



Notes from the Leyden Mtiseuni, "Vol. XIX, 



