222 LUCANIDiE. 



and the space between this and the outer edge bears only very 

 minute and scanty punctures. The elytra are finely striate, 

 with smooth flat dorsal intervals. The striae are closely 

 punctured and are replaced at the sides and upon the posterior 

 part by fine discoimected punctures. The shoulders are acute. 

 The mentum is broad and very coarsely rugose. The meta- 

 sternum is smooth in the middle and strongly punctured at the 

 sides ; and the abdomen is rather sparingly punctured. 



Length, 10-5 mm. ; breadth, 3-5 mm. 



India. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Onlj' the unique type specimen is kno\\ii. It has been in the 

 British Museum for over a century and its origin is uncertain. 



128. Figulus horni. 



Figulus horni Zang, Deuts. Ent. Zeits. 190.5, p. 161. 



Black, very smooth and shining, long and narrow. The 

 antennae consist of nine joints. The head is strongly but not 

 closely punctured, hollowed ui the middle, where there are 

 a few large araiular punctures, and with a small smooth area 

 on each side towards the front. The canthus is very prominent, 

 not distinctly angular in front and almost right-angled Ijchind. 

 The pro7iotum is almost as long as it is wide, its sides are almost 

 straight and parallel, the front angles very blunt and the hind 

 angles gently rounded. A deep, rather narrow, coarseh' and 

 closely i^unctured median groove extends almost to the front 

 and hind margins, a small prominent tubercle separating it 

 from the front margin. There is a broad band of large and 

 rather close punctures on each side, but the outer margins are 

 smooth and shining, as well as the intervals between the 

 punctured areas and the median groove. The scutellum is 

 invisible. The elytra are very deeply striate, tlie dorsal strije 

 narrow, very finely punctured and separating wide flat smooth 

 intervals, the outer striae contahiing larger ])unctures and the 

 intervals more convex. The sides of the el\i;ra bear rows of 

 disconnected punctvu'cs and the apices are opac^ue and coarsely 

 pitted. The lateral margins are feebly serrate at the base and 

 the shoulders are acute. The mentum is transversely elevated, 

 smooth at the base and closely rugose in front. The meta- 

 sternum is very smooth, witli large horseshoe- shaped impres- 

 sions on each side ; the basal sternite of the abdomen bears 

 similar imjiressions and the remaining sternites are smooth, 

 each with a basal series of short elevations. 



Length, 8-9 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Ceylon : Habarane (E. E. Green, Oct.) ; Colombo, coast 

 level {G. Lewis, April). 



Type in the Entomological Institute, Dahlem, Berlin. 



