NIGIDIUS LICHTENSTEJNII. 129 



NOTE XXXIY. 



ON A m^^ SPECIES OE LUCANIDE, mGlDlUS 

 LICHTENSTEIKII, EROM CELEBES. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



This new species belongs to Parry's ') Section A (man- 

 dibles robust , with a recurved process at the base) , b (pro- 

 thorax smooth, non-foveate; the anterior angles produced,' 

 non-emarginate) and is therefore allied to Nigidius laevi- 

 collis Westw. ^) of the Philippine islands, but at once to 

 be distinguished from that species by the different punc- 

 tuation of the sides of the prothorax and that of the sulci 

 of the elytra. 



I propose to name the new species in honor of the well 

 known and sagacious inquirer of insect-life Mr. Jules Lich- 

 tenstein of Montpellier: 



Nigidius Lichtensteinii, sp. n. 

 Male. — Length (without mandibles) 16 mm., breadth 



1) Trans. Ent. Soc. of London. 1873. p. 343. 



2) According to a communication recently received from Major F. J.Sidney 

 Parry, Nigidius Fomtosa/iits Bates is proximate to iV. cornutus Mc Leay, 

 perhaps even a less developed variety of that species. I have compared the 

 type specimen of Fonnosanus , most generously lent to me for that 

 purpose by its present possessor, ISIajor Sidney Parry, with the new species, 

 and I can state that they are quite diflTcreut. 



Notes trom the Leyden ^luseum. 



