150 LUCANID^. 



dense and rugDsc towards the sides and apices. The legs are 

 sliort, the front tibise fairly slender, the extremities a little 

 produced and minutely tridentate, the outer edge with very 

 minute scattered teeth, the middle and hind tibise each with a 

 small spine near the middle, all the tarsi very short and 

 filiform. 



Length (with mandibles), 26 mm. ; (without mandibles) 

 23 mm. : breadth, 10 mm. 



Ceylon : Pulmoddai, Trincomali district {G. M . Henry, 

 Aug.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



I have seen only a single male specimen, taken by Mr. Henry 

 at light in a jungle village near the sea, about 30 miles north of 

 Trincomali, in the dry season and jiresented by the captor to 

 the Briti-sh Museum. 



Although differing in certain well-marked details, this species 

 is very closely related to M. oweni Hope and M. pascoei Boil., 

 and closely resembles them in form and size. The most 

 important difference is in the much shorter tarsi, those of the 

 male type specimen being distinctly shorter than those of the 

 female of M. oweni, in wliich they are much shorter than in 

 the male. 



Another important difference is found in the strong punctur- 

 ation of the upper surface. In contrast to the other two sjjeeies 

 the head and thorax are shining, except at the sides, and the 

 elytra are dull, in consequence of their subrugose puncturation. 

 The head and mandibles have the same form as those of the 

 two allied species, the mandibles having each a single strong 

 process beneath, as in M. pascoei. The prothorax has no 

 lateral angle. 



76. Dorcus pascoei. 



Prosopoccelus pascoei Boil.,* Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1913, p. 331). 

 figs. 1 & 2. 



Black or very dark reddish-brown, not very shining, the 

 femora of the male bright red or orange, the tarsi clothed 

 beneath with yellow setae, the body otlierwise without hairy 

 clothing. Moderately compact and convex, with fairly slender 

 legs. The cantluis extentling past the middle of the eye and the 

 sides of the head triangularly produced on each side behind the 

 eye. The pronotum sliort, the front angles broadly rounded, 

 the sides very gently curved to the sharp lateral angle and 

 straiglit from there to the base, the hind angle rounded. The 

 sides of the (>lytra rounded, the shoulders not very acute. 

 The prosteruuui cfmipressed and slightly pointed behind. 



$. Oval and convex. The h(<id is strongly punctured except 

 in tlie middle of 1 he posterior ]»ait and the sides ar<' obliquely 



