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with that of equestris ; on the pronotum , however , it is 

 somewhat stronger and denser especially towards the sides. 

 The antennae are , as is already said , distinctly more 

 slender and the upper surface of the scutellum is flat. The 

 elytra have, exactly as in equestris Newm., rujicollis Wa- 

 terh. {= coUaris Harold) , jai'awa Bates (= puncticolUs Rits.) 

 and ajffinis Rits., on their apical half a sutural and a 

 lateral impression which, like the apex, are very finely 

 and exceedingly closely punctured and covered with a black 

 pubescence which forms an elongate velvety patch on the 

 inner margin of the lateral impression. The intercoxal part 

 of the pro- and mesosternum formed as in the majority of 

 the species (no tubercle and V-shaped recess ^) ). The 5th 

 ventral segment in the female (the only sex which is known 

 to me) shaped as in the same sex of the four above quoted 

 species, viz. an impressed angular pro-apical line preceded 

 by an ill-defined semilunar impression whereas the apical 

 margin is angularly notched in the middle. The apical dorsal 

 segment is broadly triangular with narrowly rounded tip. 

 — Length from the frontmargin of the interantennary ridge 

 to the apex of the elytra 26 mm. , breadth of the elytra at 

 the shoulders 8 mm. 



Hah. Cochin China. — A female specimen in the col- 

 lection of Mr. Rene Oberthiir , formerly belonging to that 

 of Mr. James Thomson. 



Pachyteria similis, nov. spec. 



This species, though strongly resembling the preceding in 

 coloration, belongs, according to the structural characte- 

 ristics , viz. conformation of the apical segments of the 

 abdomen etc., to the group of P. hasalis Waterh. (= po- 

 lychroma Harold) , rugosicollis Rits. and Hageni Rits. ^) , and 



1) See in the description of Pachyteria Borrei Rits.: Notes Leyd.Mus. X, 

 p. 179, line two from bottom. 



2) Very probably also P. speciosa Pasc, a species which is unknown to me, 

 and in the description of which nothing is said about the shape of the apical 

 ventral segments. 



^otes from the Leyden IMuseura. Vol. Xll. 



