﻿62 Major Parry's Catalogue 



prothorace lateribus parallelis, margine lateral! ad basin 

 oblique punctato ; clypeo transverse, disco late impresso (et 

 in medio punctato), antice tuberculo conico medio armato ; 

 elytris modice convexis, punctatis, et obsolete longitudinaliter 

 canaliculatis. 

 $ mail simillima, at mandibulis parvis simplicibus et protho- 

 race parum minori distincta. 

 Long. corp. maris cum mandibulis lin. 7. 

 Habitat in Chili. In Mus. D. Parry. 



This new species differs from Scl. Lessonu, Buquet (Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. = Pycnosipliorus mandibularis, Solier, Gay Nat. Hist. 

 Chili), in its uniform black colour, in the elytra being destitute of 

 the numerous elevated polished spots between the punctures, the 

 prothorax not widened in front, the head narrower, the clypeus 

 not porrected into a rounded lobe in the middle, the crown of the 

 head wanting the auriculated process on each side between the 

 eyes, and in the different shape of the mandibles. The prothorax 

 has a deep central channel, terminated in the middle of the fore 

 margin in a small conical point. The underside of the body is 

 glossy, with a few minute punctures, the head, including the 

 mentum, being more strongly and closely punctured. The fore 

 tibiae have six teeth on the outer edge, and the four posterior tibiae 

 are each armed with two spines on the outer margin. — J. O. W.] 



Gen. OoNOTus,* Parry. 

 Dorcus adspersiis, Boheman, Ins. CafTr. 2, 3S4. 

 Dorcus adsj)e)sus, Westw. Tr. Ent. Soc. Ser. 3, i. 4.35, pi. xvi. 



fig. 6. 

 A description and figure of the above species (from Port 

 Natal), by Professor Westwood, will be found in the Trans- 

 actions of the Society (1. c.) It appears, upon examination, to 

 be so very aberrant in general form and character from those 

 insects belonging to Dorcus proper, that I have no hesitation in 

 proposing it as the type of a new gcnvis ; but as we are only 

 acquainted with the female sex, it is unadvisable for the present 

 to give any decided characters ; nevertheless the short mandibles, 

 the abbreviate and convex form, the squamose texture of the 

 body, with its rounded and anteriorly trituberculate prothorax, 

 sunicicnlly warrant the creation of the jiroposed new genus. The 

 above characters distinguish the insect from tliose smaller species 

 of the DorcidiC appertaining to the genera Sclcroslumus and 



• 'illy, vwToc, in allusion to llic convex back. 



