216 PACHYTERIA LUGUBRIS. 



brownish yellow, partly (from abrasion?) covered with 

 short black hairs ; the anterior tibiae covered on the inside 

 with an ochreous pubescence, the coxae, the mesosternum , 

 the hind margin of the raetasternum and that of the ven- 

 tral segments with a dense silvery pile. 



The head is rugosely sculptured on the vertex and be- 

 hind the eyes , but these rugose regions are separated by 

 a smooth , sparsely punctured space ; the space between 

 the under margin of the eyes and the base of the man- 

 dibles smooth, sparsely punctured; the inter-antennary 

 ridge is densely covered with a fine sculpturing and with 

 short black hairs, and is separated from the clypeus by a 

 smooth space with raised lateral margins and divided by 

 an impressed line which extends down to the base of the 

 clypeus ; the clypeus itself is convex in a transverse direc- 

 tion, rather densely covered with punctures on its basal 

 half, the punctures decreasing in number and size towards 

 the contracted front portion which is impunctate and of 

 a bright chestnut color; the labrum is short, strongly 

 transverse and finely punctured; the sides of the mandibles 

 are strongly punctured on their basal half, very finely 

 on the apical one. The antennae are proportionately 

 short, reaching hardly to the elytral band, and consi- 

 derably thickened in the middle; the scape is rather short, 

 toothed at the apex, strongly and densely punctured and 

 with a shallow roundish impression at the base in front ; 

 the 3rd joint is slightly curved and becomes gradually 

 thicker towards the end , it is not quite so long as the 

 4th and 5th taken together, the 4th — 7th subequal , the 

 following joints slightly decreasing in length , but the 

 apical joint again somewhat longer. 



The prothorax large ; the sides without any trace of 

 spine or tooth , slightly converging towards the front 

 margin , much more broadly rounded towards the base 

 than anteriorly; the front- and basal margin bisinuate; 

 the disk flat , scabrous , bordered anteriorly, at some distance 

 from the front margin , by a transverse line which is en- 

 Notes from the Leyden ]VIiiseura, Vol. XIV. 



