FIGULUS LANSBERGEI. 21*7 



NOTE XXXII. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OP THE 

 LÜCANOID GENUS PIGÜLUS. 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



In a small but very interesting collection of Coleoptera 

 fi'om the island of Sumbawa recently presented to the Ley- 

 den Museum by his Excellence, the Governor General of 

 Dutch India J. W. van Lansberge, I found two speci- 

 mens of a new species of the above mentioned genus. 

 It occupies a position quite by itself in the genus , the 

 pronotum being entirely smooth without a central fovea, 

 and the elytra being irregularly punctate-striate. It has 

 the first mentioned characteristic in common with F. inte- 

 gricoUis Thoms. of the Marianne Islands, the second with 

 F. suhlaevis Palis. (= nigritus Westw.) of West- Africa and 

 with F. anthraciims Klug of Madagascar. 



I propose to name this new and interesting species 



Fig u lus Lansher ge i. 



Length (without mandibles) 13,5 — 15mm.; breadth at the 

 shoulders 5—6 mm. — Elongate , parallel , rather broad 

 and slightly convex. Deep black , with a strong gloss. 

 The head dififusedly covered with fine punctures ; its ante- 



JNotes from the Ley den IVEiiseviiia , Vol. II. 



