CEREOPSIUS APICALIS. 



NOTE IL 



DESCRIPTION or A NEW SPECIES OF THE LONGI- 

 CORN GENUS CEREOPSIUS, THOMS. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Cereopsius apicalis, sp. n. 



Length 21 mm. , breadth at the shoulders 8 mm. ; length 

 of the antennae 27 mm. 



Glabrous ; brick red , with the labrum , apical joint of 

 the palpi , apex of the mandibles , eyes , antennae , apex of 

 the thoracical spines, legs (except the coxae and the in- 

 termediate and posterior trochanters), scutellum and extreme 

 apical margin of the ventral segments , black , and the api- 

 cal fourth of the elytra dark steel blue with a faint violet 

 hue; the under surface of the base of the third and fol- 

 lowing joints of the antennae with a spot of whitish pu- 

 bescence. 



The head with a few scattered punctures and a raised 

 narrow Une, which extends from the middle of the ante- 

 rior margin of the clypeus up to the prothorax , taking 

 its course through a longitudinal impression on the cly- 

 peus and through a similar one on the vertex ; another 

 impression is present between the base of the eyes and the 

 mandibles. The apical joint of the antennae extremely 

 acute at the top. 



The pronotum a little more short than broad at the base , 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. HI, 



