﻿52 Major Parry's Catalogue 



Allied to G. squalidns, Hope, but readily distinguished from 

 tliat species by its more elongate and convex form, its broader 

 prothorax, with the anterior angles more produced, and by the 

 strongly marked costate sculpture of its elytra. Its true habitat 

 is uncertain, but I believe it to be from the Indian Archipelago. 



Gnapiialoryx sculi'Tipennis $ , Parry. 



G. niger, opacus, squamulis griseis erectis dense vestitus ; capfte 

 transverso, prothorace paulo angustiori, angulis posticis 

 acutis ; mandibulis capite paulo brevioribus, inermibus, apice 

 falcatis, intus ad basin dilatatis, edentatis ; prothorace trans- 

 verso, medio obsolete longitudinaliter canaliculato, lateribus 

 fere rectis, angulis posticis oblique truncatis ; elytris brevibus, 

 apicem versus convexis, fortius sed irregulariter costatis, 

 interstitiis dense et minute punctatis ; cor])ore subtus nigro, 

 leviter squamuloso ; pedibus piceis, hirsutis ; tibiis inermibus. 

 Long. corp. (mandib. inch) lin. tS. 

 Hab. N. Guinea. Coll. Mus. Lugdun. ct Parry. 

 From the short unarmed mandibles, the above species may 

 possibly represent only a var. minor ; in more fully developed 

 individuals, the mandibles, as in all the species of this genus, 

 ^vill probably be found to be denticulated ; in all other characters 

 it evidently belongs to this genus. I am indebted to Professor 

 Dehaan, of Leyden, for its possession. 



iEcus cicATRicosus, Wiedemann, Zool. Mag. II. i. 108 {Liicanus). 



From the description of this species there is no doubt (although 

 no allusion is made to the sex) of its representing a ?, and there 

 is further every reason to suppose that Dr. Burmeister is correct 

 in referring it to /Eg. aciimhialiis, Fabricius. Count Dejean, in 

 Jiis Catalogue, regards it as a distinct species, and M. Keiche 

 takes the same view (vid. Ann. Soc. Ent. Ser. 3, vol. i. p. 82), 

 stating both sexes to be in Count Dejcan's Collection, but I am 

 not aware upon what ground iM. Reiche supposes the <J to which 

 he alludes to be that of cicalricostis of Wiedemann, considering that 

 one sex only is described by that author, and that, as already 

 stated, is evidently the $. 



I have now before me the typical specimen of Count Dejcan's 

 Collection (belonging to Mr. James Thomson) ; it is the var. 

 minor of /Egus c/iclifcr, M'Leay, from the Malay Peninsula. 



The locality of Java assigned to Count Dejean's specimen is, I 

 I have no doubt, erroneous ; I am acquainted with many large 



