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Description (if (I new species of tlic Lacanokl (jenas Canthavoletli- 

 riis, T/iomso)/ ; by Major F. J. Sidney Parry, F.L.S. 



C. Strtiiliclll, Fai-fij, n. sp. ( ^ var. ined.). 



C. niger, nitidissimus, glaberrimus. Mandlhuhv elytris paulo 

 l)reviores, robiistie, arcuataj, supra leviter canaliculatai, intus 

 prope basin liinodoso-dentat?e, ad apicem fortiter bifiircat;x3, et 

 dente acuto subarinatai. Capmt fere quadratum, antice eniargi- 

 natuni, disco triangulariter excavato, sub lente sparsini irregulari- 

 ter punctxilatum, clypeo parvo, nodoso, vix conspicuo. Antenna' 

 elougatte, articulis cylindricis, clava griseo-velutinosa. ^Prothorux 

 transversus, sparsini punctutatus, in medio longitudinaliter canali- 

 culatus, postice impressionibus duabus sat profunde notatus, 

 lateribus antice dilatatis, marginibus minute serrulatis, angulis 

 posticis obliquis, emarginatis. Elytni glabra, linea marginali 

 reflexa, punctata, humeris prominulis spina minima nodosa 

 instructis. Seidell um sparsini punctulatum. Pedes punctati, 

 tibiis anticis apicem versus tiiberculis minutis irregulariter 

 armatis. Suhtus pectore, capiteque lateribus varioloso-punctatis. 

 Long., corp. unc. 1, mandib. lin. 5. 



Hab. Columbia ; sp. un. Mus. tSteinlieil. 



For tlie opportunity of describing this new and interesting 

 species I am indebted to Mr. Edward Steiiilaeil, of Municli, wlio 

 has kindly entrusted it to me with other interesting Lucanoid 

 Coleo})tera found by him in his recent travels in Central America. 



Mr. Steinheil informs me that he found two specimens only, 

 ^ and ^ (dead), in the month of March, near Santa Eosa, in the 

 central Cordilleras, between (jartago and Mauizales ; the same 

 traveller also discovered examples, ^ and ^ , of C Lmrr/', but 

 in a different locality, (East Columbia). The female of the latter 

 is evidently identical with the insect recently described as C. 

 Luxeri $ , from a specimen in the liritish Museum, by Mr. 

 Charles O. Waterhous(i, (Cist. Ent. I, p. 364), and will probably 

 prove identical with Pholidotns Reicliei, Hope, the type speci- 

 men of which is iKnv in Mr. Thomson's collection, and has been 

 noted by him (Ann. 8oc. Ent. Fr. 4e. 8er. II) as being possibly 



