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abbreviated and with shorter antennae, smaller head and much larger 

 eyes than striatus. The surface of the prothorax in pubescens 

 is said to have large close punctures, and it seems to differ greatly 

 also in its longer pubescence and in several other features; the length 

 of pubescens is only I mm. 



Laemophloeus Cast. 



The various species in this genus hold very well to a common type 

 of habitus, the body being of larger size and much broader outline 

 as a rule than in Cryptolestes or Silvanophlceus; they also present 

 more marked sexual differences and these, as in Lucanidae, are of 

 variable degree. There are, for example, fully developed males, 

 and less developed stages in which the head is not so large and the 

 antennas shorter, but, unlike the Lucanidae, where the female is 

 rather constant, that sex in Lcemophloeus also has its greater or less 

 developments, particularly pronounced in the length of the antennae; 

 the head is always distinctly smaller in the female than in the male 

 and the body is also smaller in size. The mandibles are generally 

 moderate, but in species of the convexulus type, they become long 

 and prominent, as in Parandrita, and, in that very peculiar type 

 the eyes also differ greatly in the sexes, being extremely prominent 

 and globularly convex in the males and relatively rather larger 

 but much less prominent in the females. In the latter sex the an- 

 tennae always have a rather obvious but long and loose 3-jointed 

 club, but in the males they are long and purely filiform as a rule. 

 The following new forms are to be noted at the present time: 



Laemophloeus fervidus n. sp. Male large, broad, oblong, subparallel, 

 greatly depressed, polished and without trace of micro-reticulation, pi- 

 ceo-rufous in color, the elytra each with an elongate-oval pale spot on the 

 median line near basal third; head fully as wide as the prothorax, trans- 

 verse, rather finely but very strongly and loosely punctate, the ambient 

 stria complete, joined by a median longitudinal stria; labrum large, 

 trapezoidal, with the angles and apex rounded, the surface finely, loosely 

 punctate; eyes at not quite their own length from the base, the tempora 

 converging; antennae rather thick but purely filiform and extending to 

 apical fourth of the elytra, the first joint thickest, twice as long as wide, 

 second oboval, third to tenth gradually increasing very slightly in length 

 and all more than twice as long as wide, the last nearly three times as 

 long as wide, straight, enlarged apically; pubescence of their inner sides 

 not very developed; prothorax not quite twice as wide as long, the base 

 fully three-fourths as wide as the rectilinearly truncate apex, the sides 



