42 ARGYRIPA SUBFASCIATA 



The elytra velvety , dark purple inclining to black , provi- 

 ded with three curved , more or less interrupted transverse 

 bands and two apical spots of a yellow crust. The first of 

 these bands , situated just behind the shoulders , is widely 

 interrupted in the middle , and joins the base of the elytra 

 along the lateral margins ; the second band , just before 

 the middle, is only interrupted by the raised sutural mar- 

 gins; the third band, at about three fourth of 'the length 

 of the elytra , is divided in four spots of nearly equal size ; 

 the two apical spots are convergent towards the suture by 

 which they are separated and leave the sutural angles free. — 

 The pygidium is dull black, rugose, and bears erect black 

 hairs. 



The head is broadly impressed along the middle, finely 

 punctate, the punctures become however larger and deeper 

 towards the margins, the margins themselves upturned and 

 rugose; the middle of the clypeus slightly raised, the front- 

 margin faintly emarginate at the top , the lateral angles 

 rounded, — The frontmargin of the thorax angularly pro- 

 duced in the middle , the produced portion densely pubescent 

 beneath. The sculpture of the thorax and elytra is hidden 

 by the yellow crust and velvety substance , but faint traces 

 of longitudinal costae may be observed on the latter; the 

 sutural margins are rather strongly raised , and neither spined 

 nor rounded at the apex. — The anterior tibiae unarmed, 

 densely scratched in a longitudinal direction ; the interme- 

 diate and posterior tibiae faintly notched at the middle on 

 the outside , covered with large punctures , and fringed inside 

 with long black hairs. The mesosternal appendage porrect, 

 semicircular. The anterior femora densely, the intermediate 

 and posterior femora as well as the sides of the breast and 

 abdomen remotely punctured. 



A single female example , probably from New Grenada. 



The species here described is the third pertaining to 

 Thomson's genus Argyripa '). The type of the genus is 



1) J. Thomson, Typi Cetonidarum , etc p. 11 (1878). 



Notes from the Lieyden. IMLuseiitii, "Vol. "VII. 



