PACHYTERIA FASCIATA. 165 



Pachyteria fasciata. Castelnau , Histoire naturelle des In- 

 sectes Cole'optères. IL p. 420. (1850). 

 ,, vohiptuosa. Thomson, Systema Cerambycida- 



rum. p. 568. (1865). (according to the 

 type -specimen), 

 „ fasciata. Ritsema, Notes from the Leyden 



Museum. III. p. 38. (1881); — id., 1. c. X. 

 p. 182, footnote. (1888); — id., Tijdschrift 

 voor Entomologie. XXXII. p. xxx. (1888). 

 Measurements of the type-specimen of Thomson's volup- 

 tuosa , a female : length from the frontmargin of the in- 

 terantennary ridge to the apex of the elytra 30 mm., 

 breadth at the shoulders O^/g mm, ; measurements of a male 

 specimen from Tranquebar in the Leyden Museum : length 

 from the frontmargin of the interantennary ridge to the 

 apex of the elytra 26^3 mm., breadth at the shoulders 

 8 mm., and those of a larger male from Bengalen in the 

 same collection : length 29^2 mm., breadth at the shoul- 

 ders 9V2 m™' 



Steely blue, the elytra with violaceous tiuges; the 7th 

 and succeeding antennal joints yellow, the extreme base 

 of the 7th and the apical half of the 11th black; the 

 elytra provided , just before the middle , with a broad 

 yellow transverse band , which on each elytron , has its 

 hind margin sinuate or broadly emarginate and its front- 

 margin slightly oblique, so as to make the band broadest 

 at the suture. 



The head glabrous , irregularly punctured , the punctures 

 deep ; the clypeus flat , provided anteriorly with an im- 

 pressed mesial longitudinal line sometimes extending to 

 the transverse elevation which separates the clypeus from 

 the interantennary ridge, the latter divided by a similar 

 deeply impressed line which disappears between the upper 

 lobes of the eyes. 



The prothorax glabrous , uitid ; the pronotum sparsely 

 punctured , the punctures on the middle of the disk finer ; 

 the prosternum more or less indistinctly wrinkled , the 



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