CYCLOMMATUS SQUAMOSUS. 45 



NOTE XIII. 



CYCLOMMATUS SQUAMOSUS, 

 A NEW SPECIES OF LUCANID FROM BORNEO 



DESCRrUED BV 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Years ago I received from his Excellency, the Ex-Go- 

 veruor General of Dutch India J. W. van Lansbero-e , a 

 lot of beetles from Sintang (Borneo), containing a. o. a 

 male Cyclommatus of minor development, which 1 believed 

 to belong to an undescribed species. I abstained , however , 

 from describing it for want of the major development, but 

 gave it the provisory name oï squamosus , making allusion 

 to the large scales by which the insect is covered on its 

 upper surface. Now, a few days ago, my friend Neervoort 

 van de Poll handed to me for identification a male Cu- 

 clommatus of major development from Brunei (Borneo) , 

 captured by Mr. Waterstradt, and I was highly surprised 

 to find that it belonged to the same, still undescribed 

 species as my small male from Sintang. Under these cir- 

 cumstances I believe to be fully entitled to publish here 

 a description of both specimens under the name of 



Cyclommatus squamo sus. 



The species is allied to Cyclommatus Dehaani Westw. 

 (ajfiriis Parry) on account of its being covered with scales 

 in connection with the slowly declivous, neither excavated 

 nor perpendicularly truncated front portion of the head , 

 and the want of the tooth on the outer upper margin of 

 the mandibles at some distance from the tip , but it is at 



Notes from the Leydcn M.useu]xi, Vol. X.1V. 



