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VIII. Description of a new species of Prosopoccelus 
(Coleoptera, Lucanide). By Major F. J. 
SYDNEY Parry, F.L.S. 
[Read 8rd May, 1875. | 
Prosopocelus Wimberleyi, sp. nov. 
Pp Yt, 
$, var. max. P. Owen? proximus, rufo-castaneus, sub- 
nitidus. 
Mandibule capite paulo breviores, subdeplanatee, basi 
fortiter emarginato, intus tuberculo parvo notato, supra 
subapicale serrato-dentatz, et infra in medio spino deflexo 
armatee. 
Caput magnum, deplanatum, crebre granulosum, pone 
oculos tuberculo porrecto armatum ; supra carinis duabus 
nigris arcuatis, postice fere conjunctis. 
“Prothorax capite latior confertissime granulosus, angulis 
anticis et posticis rotundatis, macula nigra versus angulos 
posticos ; marginibus tenue nigris, lined’ mediana vix dis- 
tincta. 
Elytra castanea, tenuissime granulosa; seutello linea 
basali, limbo externo suturaéque nigris; corpore subtus, 
pedibusque nigro-tinctis, ¢éb7is extus inermibus. 
Long. corp. lin. 11; mandib. lin. 3. 
This species is closely allied to P. Owent, Hope, but is 
easily distinguished from it by its light chestnut colour, 
the mandibles less circumflex, the ternal basal tubercle, 
the carinze on the upper surface of the head extending 
from the centre to the ante-ocular angles, the posterior 
angles of the prothorax being entirely rounded, exhibiting 
no indication as in its allied species of being denticulate. 
We are indebted to Capt. R. Wimberley for this in- 
teresting addition to the Lucanoid Coleoptera, as well as 
for much valuable knowledge of the general entomology 
of the same locality. — 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1875.—PART I. (SEPT.) 
