FIGULUS MARGINALIS. 189 



NOTE XLIII. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF TPIE LUCANOID GENUS 



FICtULUS EROM THE MALAYAN 



ARCHIPELAGO. 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Figulus margin alis, sp. n. 



Synonym: Figulus subcastaneus v. VolL (uec Westwood), 

 Tydschrift voor Entomologie. DL VIII (1865) p. 146 

 n". 146 and p. 156. 



Allied to Figulus subcastaneus Westw. ^) but quite dis- 

 tinct from that species by the different tuberculation of the 

 head , by the comparatively longer prothorax and the presence 

 of a tubercle on the middle of its front margin , by the 

 different sculpture of the lateral margin of the elytra, etc. 



Length 8 — 11 mm., breadth at the shoulders 2,6 — 

 3,5 mm. — Elongate , parallel , slightly convex. Shining , 

 except the lateral margin and apical portion of the elytra 

 which is opaque. Above dark piceous approaching black ; 

 beneath and legs more or less bright brown red. 



1) The Entomological Magazine, vol. V (1838), p. 263, si). 8. — The cor- 

 rectness of the determination of the species that I believed to he the true 

 subcastanejis, and of which the Leyden Museum possess two specimens from 

 Java (Prof. Blume), has been confirmed by a figure drawn up from the 

 type specimen by Prof. Westwood and kindly sent to me by that author. 



r^otes Ironi the Lcytlen !MiiReiim. 



