ROSENBERQIA MANDIBULARIS. Ü 



NOTE V. 



ON A NEW GENUS OF LONGICORN COLEOPTERA 

 BELONGING TO THE GROUP OF THE BATOCERIDAE. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Hosenbergia , g. n. 



Characteristics of the genus Batocera, but with acutely 

 produced mesosternum , entire scape which is neither in- 

 cised nor scarred at the tip , and smooth antennae and 

 forelegs. Moreover the apical joint of the antennae is trans- 

 versely divided behind the middle, although not so dis- 

 tinctly as in the genus Apriona. 



I have named this genus in honor of the well known 

 traveller in the Malayan Archipelago Baron C. B. H. von 

 Rosenberg, who has brought home one of the two species 

 which will here be described. 



1. Rosenhergia mandibularis , sp. n. cf. 



Length 50 mm., breadth at the shoulders 17 mm.; length 

 of the antennae 83 mm. — Dark piceous, approaching to 

 black ; entirely covered with a close fulvous tomentum , 

 which is finer and thinner along a streak on the lateral 

 margins of the elytra which is therefore of a more blackish 

 tinge; round the eyes the pubescence is ferrugineous , on 

 the tarsi it is intermixed with stiff black hairs and on the 

 antennae it is of a more greyish black color, which be- 

 comes darker towards the end; moreover the middle of 



Notes from the Leyden ]>Xu.seuni , Vol. III. 



