BACCHISA APICAUS. » 



of the scape and the extreme apex of the last joint yel- 

 low, and the sides of the mesosternum spotted with black), 

 by the somewhat different punctuation of the elytra (the 

 punctures disappear almost entirely towards the apex, and 

 the impressed line which accompanies the suture is im- 

 punctate), by the scutellum which is impressed, not decli- 

 vous , at the top , and , moreover , by the following diffe- 

 rences which however are no doubt sexual , viz : larger 

 size (length 11 mm., breadth at the shoulders 3,5 mm), 

 thicker and shorter antennae (of the length of the body), 

 unarmed head (neither toothed , tuberculated nor tufted , 

 but very broad and flat between the antennary tubers) 

 and large somewhat swollen apical ventral segment (as 

 long as the 2nd , 3rd and 4th taken together). — Perhaps 

 this specimen will prove to be a variety of the female 

 of my Bacchisa nigriventris for which I propose the name 

 apicalis , which name might also be retained if further in- 

 vestigations show that the described female belongs to a 

 distinct species. 



Leyden Museum, October 1880. 



]>J'otes I'roxn. tlie Ueyden Miuseutn, Vol. III. 



