134 LTJCANID^. 



liead, evenly curved externally and serrate from the base 

 almost to the tip. In a much larger example (the type) the 

 head is a little depressed anteriorly, the mandibles arc a little 

 longer than the head, the apical half only is serrate and there 

 is a broad basal ])rocess. 



^. Length (with mandibles) , 20-33 mm. ; (without mandibles) 

 18-26 mm. : breadth, 7-5-11 mm. 



$. Length, 19-22 mm. ; breadth, 8-9 mm. 



S. India : Ouchterlony Valley, Nilgiri Hills, 3500 ft. {H. 

 L. Andrewes, June). Bombay : Gersoppa, N. Kanara {C. 

 McCann, June). 



T7jpe in the British Museum. 



63. Dorcus prosopocceloides. (Plate XI, fig. 19.) 



Pelecognothus prosopocceloides Houlb.,* Insecta, v, 1915, p. 53, 

 figs. 12 & 13. 



(^. Very dark reddish-brown, with the sides of the head, the 

 extreme edges of the pronotum, the scutellum, the inner and 

 outer margins of the elytra, the antennae, knees, upper edges 

 of the tibise and the tarsi black ; the surface without clothing 

 of hairs or setse, except the pale hairy pads of the tarsi. Long 

 and narrow, with rather slender legs. The prosternum is 

 very short behind the coxae, slightly compressed and very 

 blunt and rounded. The head is narrow and elongate, finely 

 granular and opaque, the front angles very obtuse, the canthus 

 not very prominent, slightly oblique, reaching the middle of 

 the eye, which is very small, the head behind the eyes long, 

 very feebly swollen at the side. The head is a little hollowed 

 in front, its upper margin gently arcuate. The cly])eal 

 process is bilobed and very short. The mandibles are flat, 

 very acute at the tij^s and bear a broad internal lobe which 

 is sharply toothed in front and rather bliuitly at the base. 

 The j)ronotum also is densely granular and opaque, especially 

 at the sides. The front angles are produced but blunt, the 

 sides rather abruptly contracted in front and rather straight 

 and jiarallel behind to the spiniform lateral angles and oblique 

 and nearly straight from there to the rounded hind angles. 

 The base is straight. The scutellum bears a few punctures. 

 The elytra are coriaceous and opaque, with the sutural margins 

 more shining. There arc incom})lete lines of fine shalloM' 

 punctures as well as similar close irregular punctures, which 

 are larger and closer at the sides. The shoulders are very 

 sharp. The prosternum is very short and bluntly rounded 

 behind. The legs are fairly slender, tlie front tibia with very 

 minute sliarp serrations in its anterior half and a very short 

 and feeble terminal fork, the middle and hind tibiae are 

 without lateral spines. 

 $. Unknown. 



