38 PACHYTERIA SCHEEPMAKERI. 



Assam. The latter species is considered in the Cataloaus 

 Coleopterorum of Messrs. Gemminger and von Harold as 

 a variety of Pachyteria fasciata Fabr. , although the elytra , 

 which are conjointly rounded posteriorly in fasciata , are 

 described and figured as having the outer apical angle 

 dentated. 



I propose to call this Ardjoeno-species 



Pachyteria Scheepmakeri , sp. n. Q. 



It may be distinguished from P. fasciata Fabr. by its 

 somewhat different coloration , the upper surface being 

 black , with a slight metallic hue near and on the scutellum 

 only, the 6th joint and the apical half of the apical joint 

 of the antennae not being black but of the same luteous 

 color of the 7th and following joints , and the fascia on 

 the elytra being broader and of a more luteous color; by 

 the black velvety pubescence on the pronotum and on the 

 head between the antennae and on the vertex ; by the diffe- 

 rent sculpture of the anterior half of the clypeus which 

 is not longitudinally grooved but slightly emarginated on 

 the middle of the front margin; by the thicker and shorter 

 3rd, 4th and 5th joints of the antennae; by the compa- 

 ratively longer prothorax and finer lateral thoracical spi- 

 nes ; by the punctuation of the luteous fascia of the elytra , 

 which is finer and more densely set ; by the narrowly emar- 

 ginated apex of the elytra , and by the lateral transverse 

 patches of silvery pubescence on the ventral segments of 

 the abdomen. The apical (5th) ventral segment is broadly 

 rounded posteriorly. 



Leyden Museum, November 1880. 



JVotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. IH. 



