﻿30 Major Parry's Catalogue 



tinguished by the short obtuse posterior angles of the head, the 

 oblique posterior angles of its prothorax, and the well-defined 

 luteoLis margin of tlie elytra. 



For the figure of this species, and the following description 

 and remarks, I am indebted to Prof. Westwood.* 



[This species somewhat closely resembles L.faber, r)ej., from 

 Guinea, especially in the toothing of the mandibles, but that 

 species possesses a spine in the middle of the intermediate tibiae. 

 It is most nearly allied to CI. picipennis, Hope, Cat. Lucan., from 

 Cape Palmas, but the head of that species has the lateral margins 

 behind the eyes only slightly dilated, and the mandibles of the 

 large variety of the male are differently toothed: it has also a 

 triangular point in the middle of the clypeus. The upper surface 

 of the head is opaque, and entirely covered with extremely minute 

 granules (as is also that of the prothorax), the space behind the 

 eyes being strongly punctate. The anterior lateral angles of the 

 head are obliquely truncate, posteriorly produced, somewhat 

 rounded and extending half across the eye : in front of the eye is 

 a moderately raised obtuse tubercle. The anterior margin of the 

 head is bisinuated, the clypeus being transverse, short, with the 

 anterior rounded. The lateral margin of the head, behind each 

 of the eyes, is produced into a rounded lobe. The mandibles are 

 rather longer than the head, somewhat slender, regularly curved, 

 strongly punctured, with an obtuse spine directed inwards beyond 

 the middle of the inner margin ; the apex somewhat digitated, 

 with a small subapical tooth, between which and the spine is a 

 broad obtuse tooth. The mentum is of moderate width and very 

 rudely punctured. The prothorax is rather broader and more 

 glossy than the head, with the anterior angles rounded, the sides 

 but slightly oblique and the hind lateral angles obliquely truncate; 

 the sides are broadly dark fulvous, with a very slender raised 

 black margin also extending along the bisinuated hind margin 

 of the prothorax : near the hind angles is a dark lateral s])ot on 

 each side ; the scutellum is very finely punctured, as is also the 

 base of the elytra. The latter are very glossy, almost quite 

 smooth, very dark chestnut down the middle, with a broad lateral 

 border of fulvous, the extreme lateral margin being raised and 

 black. The legs are pitchy black, with the femora castaneous, 

 the fore til)iac; are serrulated along the outer edge and armed with 

 three stronger teeth at the apex, the four posterior tibia? are des- 

 titute of a sjjine in the middle of the outer margin. The body 



• See note •, ante, p. 17. 



