12 MYODITES BÜTTIKOFERI. 



NOTE V. 

 A NEW AFRICAN MYODITES-SPECIES. 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Myodites Bilttikoferi, n. sp. 



Length 5 mm. — Black; the plumose antennae, the 

 anterior femora , and the tarsi (the large basal joint ex- 

 cepted) pale ochreous, the middle portion of the mandibles, 

 the apical half of the anterior tibiae , and the middle por- 

 tion of the intermediate femora somewhat darker; the tip 

 of the flabellae of the antennae infuscate; an indistinct 

 brownish subtransparent spot on the basal half of the inner 

 margin of the elytra; wings hyaline with a transverse 

 dusky band just before the apex; the costal nervures alter- 

 nately pale ochreous and dusky. 



Head and thorax opaque in consequence of a very dense 

 punctuation, covered with a short grayish pubescence; the 

 vertex elevated , obtusely conical ; the pronotum with three 

 small smooth spots forming an isosceles triangle which 

 has its top directed towards the head ; the scutellum glossy, 

 impunctate but with a central fovea; the elytra strongly 

 punctured , subshining, the shoulders glossy and impunctate ; 

 the abdomen densely punctured, the margins of the seg- 

 ments glossy and impunctate; the legs strongly punctured , 

 the anterior and intermediate ones subshining , the posterior 

 ones opaque ; the middle tarsi the longest of all , the basal 

 joint of the hind ones nearly as long as the following joints 

 taken together. 



Hab. Grand Cape Mount: Liberia (West Africa). — A 

 single specimen captured by Mr. A. T. Demery, a young 

 Liberian Mulatto , who spent about a year in Leyden with 

 Mr. Büttikofer. Enabled by the latter to continue his 

 zoological researches in Western Africa , Mr, Demery a few 

 weeks ago sent his first consignment , in which the above 

 described specimen was contained. 



^otes from tlae l^eyden IVI-aseum , "V^ol. XII. 



