CyCLOMMATUS PASTEURI. 233 



NOTE XXXV. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF THE LUCANOID GENUS 

 CYCLOMMATUS, PARRY 



UESCUIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Cy c lorn mat us P asteuri , n. sp. cf. 

 (Plate 10, % 1). 



This magnificent species, the most robust one known up 

 to this day, may easily be recognized by the shape of the 

 strongly porrected clypeus and by the tooth on the outer 

 margin of the under surface of the mandibles near to the 

 base. 



Length 54 mm., breadth at the shoulders 14 mm. — 

 The colour of the insect is bronze green with faint coppery 

 tinges , the elytra and upper side of the femora pale yel- 

 lowish brown with a metallic green and coppery hue; the 

 teeth of the mandibles glossy black , and the palpi and 

 antennae dark pitchy brown; the thickened outer margin 

 of the elytra and the elytral epipleurae are metallic green, 

 the sutural margins narrowly edged with pitchy brown. 



The whole insect is sparsely covered with elongate hair- 

 like white scales which on the elytra are only present along 

 the basal and lateral margins and on the epipleurae ; on 

 the legs and abdomen these scales are very small, on the 

 tarsi they are wanting ; the under surface of the tarsi and 

 of the tibiae and the tip of the mentum are clothed with 

 golden ferruginous hairs. 



The mandibles are broadest at the base and strongly 

 curved downwards in their apical half; their outer margin 



Notes from tlie I-ieyden IMuseum, Vol. XIII. 



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