BACCHISA NIGRIVENTRIS. 



NOTE EL 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE LONGICORN GENUS 

 BACCHISA, PASC. 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Bacchisa nigriventris , sp. n. (ƒ . 



Length 9,25 mm., breadth at the shoulders 3 mm. ; 

 length of the antennae 14,5 mm. 



Fulvous-yellow, the head, thorax and legs somewhat 

 darker than the elytra; the apical third of the mandibles, 

 the eyes , the antennae (except the basal third of the scape , 

 the base of the 2nd joint and the extreme apex), the me- 

 tasternum and the abdomen , black , the segments of the 

 latter however faintly margined with fulvous. 



The head glossy, impunctate, with a narrow median 

 dark line which extends from the front margin of the clypeus 

 up to the pronotum. On the middle of the front margin 

 of the clypeus a sharp tooth is present, which is directed 

 forward, whereas the head between the upper divisions of 

 the eyes is raised and distinctly produced into a tubercle 

 on the forehead. A large rounded impression may be ob- 

 served on the vertex. Moreover the head is provided with 

 four tufts of long fulvous hairs, one on the tooth of the cly- 

 peus , another on the vertex between the frontal tubercle and 

 the impression the remaining two between the inferior divi- 

 sions of the eyes and the antennary tubers ; of the last men- 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. HI. 



