PACHYTERIA AFFINIS. 35 



to the Entomological Collections of the Zoological Garden 

 „ Natura Artis Magistra" at Amsterdam ; one of these spe- 

 cimens however is now in the Collection of the Leyden 

 Museum. 



There is another Pachyteria in the Collection of the Leyden 

 Museum which I believe to belong to a distinct species , 

 although it is most closely allied to my P. puncticollis. 



For this species , which was regarded by the late Dr. Snellen 

 van Vollenhoven as P. hicolor (Dej.) Parry ') , I propose 

 the name of 



Pachyteria aj/inis, sp. n. 



As was mentioned above , this species is so closely allied 

 to P. puncticollis Rits. that it will be sufficient to point 

 out the differences. It is a pity that the single specimen 

 which I have before me and of which the locality is un- 

 known is mutilated : of the antennae the two basal joints 

 and the base of the third joint only are present, of the abdomen 

 the three basal segments and the base of the fourth only. 



The present species is somewhat broader than puncticollis 

 and has the legs much stouter. The head , the thorax , the 

 scutellum , the streak on the apical half of the elytra between 



1) In volume V (p. 182) of the Transactions of the Entomological Society 

 of London, Mr. J. F. S. Parry gives the following short description of his Pa!- 

 chyteria bicolor : 



'/Nigra, elytrorum dimidio anteriore, antennarum articulis septem primis, 

 tibiis anterioribus tarsisque flavis, elytrorum dimidio posteriore obscure viridi 

 nitido. — Long. 1 \ inch. — Habitat Java". 



Moreover Mr. Parry says: «This beautiful insect is one of the numerous 

 undescribed species to be found in the catalogue of the late Count De Jean's 

 collection, and having been assured by a letter lately received from my friend 

 Dr. Schaum, from Paris, of the identity of the species, I have thought it 

 not unworthy of a place in our Transactions." 



I wrote to Mr. Parry whether I might be allowed to compare the type 

 specimen of this species, but I received the following disappointing answer: 

 //I parted with my Longicorns many years ago, but cannot say who posse.sse3 

 the species you attach to," and so I have been obliged to make use of the des- 

 cription only, which however neither corresponds with my Pachyteria affinis, 

 nor even with the accompanying figure (/. c. pi. 18, fig. 5). 



Notes from the I^eyden ]Museum , Vol. III. 



