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XVII. Description of a new species of Lucanide, with 
a note on Lissotes obtusatus. By J. O. 
Westwoop, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 
[Read 5th July, 1875.] 
Genus Scortizus, Westw. 
Scortizus pulverosus,n.s. (Pl. TX. fig. 2.) 
Niger, capite et pronoto subleevibus; elytris punctato- 
striatis interstitiis punctatis, pulvere plumbeo cupreoque 
certo situ nitenti, indutis; mandibulis capite vix longiori- 
bus rectis, intus 4-sinuatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 7 (mandibulis inclusis). 
Habitat prope Chiquinquivia Cordillerz orientalis—La 
Luzua (Steinheil)—altitudine 8,800 ped. In Mus. 
Dom. Steinheil ad Dom. Parry communicatus. 
The head is nearly quadrate, with the anterior lateral 
angles strongly rounded off, and with a deep emargination 
in the middle of the fore margin. The eye is anteriorly 
half-incised by the lateral canthus, with a deep impression 
in front of the eye. The front half of the head is 
obliquely depressed, the dorsal portion is nearly smooth, 
but the sides, especially behind the eyes where they are 
slightly swollen, are punctuate. The mandibles are 
about as long as the head, nearly straight, narrow, with 
the inner margin 4-sinuated, the intervening spaces form- 
ing very obtuse teeth, the basal one being the strongest. 
The pronotum is transverse, broader than the head and 
elytra, the anterior angles acute; the sides rather con- 
verging in the middle, with the lateral posterior angles 
acute, each preceded by a rather deep emargination. ‘The 
disc is nearly smooth, with a slight raised lateral margin, 
and with an impression in the middle, in front of the 
scutellum. The hind margin is very slightly sinuated. 
The elytra are of moderate length, narrower than the 
prothorax, with a sharp point at the anterior angle of 
each, opposite the pointed hind angle of the prothorax. 
They are punctate-striate, the interstices with still finer 
punctures; and are covered with a pulverescence of a slaty 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1875.—PART III. (NOY.) 
