. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. 88 R. UANITSCII named « P. mandarinea Sss. » by Shelford, which I also take to belong to transversa Burm. The two specimens are of the normal colouring, viz. body l)lack, tegmina bi-colorous. The following table gives the measurements of the specimens (cT & 9) fr^"^ Siboga; of the cf from Lundu, Sarawak; of the cf cT in tlie Oxford Museum from « Borneo » and Singapore respectively; of Brunner's 9 from Ceylon, and of the same author's cf and 9 from Carin Gheba, Burma. Siboga Siboga Lundu Borneo Singapore Ceylo
. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. 88 R. UANITSCII named « P. mandarinea Sss. » by Shelford, which I also take to belong to transversa Burm. The two specimens are of the normal colouring, viz. body l)lack, tegmina bi-colorous. The following table gives the measurements of the specimens (cT & 9) fr^"^ Siboga; of the cf from Lundu, Sarawak; of the cf cT in tlie Oxford Museum from « Borneo » and Singapore respectively; of Brunner's 9 from Ceylon, and of the same author's cf and 9 from Carin Gheba, Burma. Siboga Siboga Lundu Borneo Singapore Ceylon Burma Burma d" 9 d^ cT cf Q d" 9 mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. body .... 40.— 39.— 29.— 34.— 30.— pronotum, length . 7.— 6.— 6.— pronotum, width . 15.— 10.— 10.— 12.— tegmina . 29.— 29.— 32.— 23.— F*£t ]iio(li»ìì n. sp. 299 Siboga, Sumatra. Oct. 1890 to March 1891. E. Mo- digliani. 9. Size smaller than P. transversa Burm. General colour black, except for an orange- coloured sub-terminal ring of the antennae, and a dull fulvous band across the tegmina. Head exposed, finely punctured, shining black; labrum fusco-testaceous ; antennae black, with an orange-coloured sub-terminal ring of about 8 joints; interocular distance equal to that between the antennal sockets. Pronotum black, deeply punctured; anterior border without cornua and with only a small and shallow emargination : tig. 19. behind it a triangular depression, bounded poste- n. sp. 9. X 1 V2. ^*^o^v by a raised protuberance. Tegmina shorter than the abdomen, just exceeding the 1^^ abdo- minal segment, considerably narrower than the abdomen, dull black, with a broad dull fulvous vitta across their middle, apex suffused with fulvous. Wings black, shading to dull testa-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for r
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