ARTELtDA PERNOBILIS. 



NOTE III. 

 ON A NEW LONGICORN FROM MADAGASCAR. 



BY 



J. R. H. NEERVOORT van de POLL. 



Artelid a pernobilis, v. d. Poll. 



Length 15 mm., breadth at the shoulders 4'/2 ^im. — 

 Exceedingly close to A. aurosericea C. 0. Waterh. , with the 

 type specimen of which I had an opportunity to compare 

 my species at the British Museum. The covering pile of 

 the uppersurface of a much brighter and more orange gol- 

 den tinge; the underside fuscous-black instead of yellowish; 

 the antennae entirely fulvous whilst they are fuscous with 

 the first joint clearer in aurosericea. The head with much 

 more prominent eyes. The thorax anteriorly necklike pro- 

 longed , with a distinct spiniform tubercle at the sides and 

 four obtuse tubercles on the disc ; aurosericea has the thorax 

 wider at the base and the lateral tubercles less developed. 

 The hinder tibiae are less dilated in our new species and 

 they do not present any difference according to the sexes ; 

 the claw-joint is dilated in the male sex. 



A. crinipes Thorns.') is also nearly allied, the shape of 

 the head and thorax is almost exactly the same, but the 

 colour is brownish and the covering pile thinner , even not 

 hiding the elytral sculpture; below the abdomen only is 

 blackish and the hinder tibiae are very strongly dilated and 

 thickly clothed with long black hairs. 



A. pernobilis has been taken by Mr. E. Perrot at Fene- 

 rive on the east coast of Madagascar. 



1) 1 thiuk it must be ascribed to a lapsus calami, that Mr. Waterhouse 

 calls this species „crinita Thorns." 



]N'otes from tlie Leyden JVEuseum, "Vol. ^I£. 



