158 PANTOLA>rPRL'S AlIKATLS. 



NOTE XIII. 



A NEW AFRICAN SPECIES OF THE COLEOPTEROUS 

 FAMILY ELATERIDAE. 



DESCRIBED BY 



Dr. E. CANDEZE. 



Pantolamprus a n r a t u s , u. sp. 



Cupreus , aureo-micans , nitidissimus, pilositate subtili , 

 flavida vix visibiliter vestitus; antennis uigris; prothorace 

 latitudine longiore , aequaliter convexo , crebre fortiterque 

 cum fronte couvexa punctato , postice partius et uitidiore , 

 sulcato , angulis posticis uigris , cariuatis ; elytris parallelis , 

 seriatim puuctatis; pedibus laete rufis. — Long. 18 mm., 

 lat. 4 mm. 



Hab. Liberia: Cape Mount (Biittikofer and Sala). — A 

 single specimen. 



The species of the genus Pantolamprus are exceedingly 

 variable as to size and colour, and they have not 

 the definite value which they may have in other genera. 

 One hardly finds two specimens which are quite similar. 

 From the large P. niten.'< of the Gaboon to P. perpnkher, 

 the smallest of all , of the Senegal , all intermediate stages 

 are represented. 



The one here described , wliich might perhaps be con- 

 sidered as a small red-legged, golden variety oïP.Dohrm, 

 nevertheless appears to me to deserve a distinct specific name. 



Glain near Liége, February 27th, 1882. 



Notes from the Leyclen Museum , Vol. IV. 



