160 PACHYTERIA FASCIATA. 



intercoxal part rounded, without tubercle; the intercoxal 

 part of the mesosternum without V-shaped recess ; the 

 metasternum remotely punctured , sparsely covered with 

 erect black hairs, and provided along the middle with an 

 impressed line. 



The scutellum triangular with acutely pointed apex , flat , 

 glabrous and impunctate. 



The elytra distinctly tapering towards the end, the 

 apices narrowly subtruncate or faintly emarginate; pu- 

 bescent and very densely and finely punctured on the blue 

 portion , the yellow band, however, glabrous and remotely 

 covered with large punctures. 



The abdomen sparsely provided with very distinct punc- 

 tures , scarcely at all pubescent. In the male the 5th 

 segment is broadly and rather deeply emarginate, the 

 6th segment faintly emarginate, the hind margins of these 

 segments fringed with black hairs; in the female the 5th 

 segment is angularly notched in the middle. 



The antennae and legs are stout, the femora strongly 

 punctured. 



Hah. Tranquebar, Himalaya, Bengalen, Cambodja, etc. 

 Of the specimens in the British Museum Collection two 

 are ticketed India, one China and one Ceylon. To the 

 two specimens in Bank's Cabinet no indication of locality 

 is attached. — In several collections. 



Pacliyteria calumniata , nov. spec. 



Pachyteria fasciata. Dejean , in coll. (nee Fabricius). 

 „ fasciata. Thomson , in coll. (nee Fabricius). 



,, Dejeani. Gahan , in coll. Brit. Mus. 



,, voluptuosa. Ritsema (nee Thomson) , Notes 



from the Leyden Museum. X. p. 182, foot- 

 note. (1888); — id., Tijdschrift voor Ento- 

 mologie. XXXII. p. XXX. (1888). 

 Length from the frontmargin of the interantennary ridge 

 to the apex of the elytra 24— 29 mm., breadth at the 

 shoulders 7 — S'/g ^^' 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseum , Vol. XII. 



