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prothorace lateribus parallelis, margine laterali ad basin 
oblique punctato; clypeo transverso, disco late impresso (et 
in medio punctato), antice tuberculo conico medio armato ; 
elytris modice convexis, punctatis, et obsolete longitudinaliter 
canaliculatis. 
2 mari simillima, at mandibulis parvis simplicibus et protho- 
race parum minori distincta. 
Long. corp. maris cum mandibulis lin, 7, 
Habitat in Chili. In Mus, D. Parry. 
This new species differs from Scl. Lessonii, Buquet (Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. = Pycnosiphorus mandibularis, Solier, Gay Nat. Hist. 
Chili), in its uniform black colour, in the elytra being destitute of 
the numerous elevated polished spots between the punctures, the 
prothorax not widened in front, the head narrower, the clypeus 
not porrected into a rounded lobe in the middle, the crown of the 
head wanting the auriculated process on each side between the 
eyes, and in the different shape of the mandibles. The prothorax 
has a deep central channel, terminated in the middle of the fore 
margin in a small conical point. The underside of the body is 
glossy, with a few minute punctures, the head, including the 
mentum, being more strongly and closely punctured. The fore 
tibiz have six teeth on the outer edge, and the four posterior tibia 
are each armed with two spines on the outer margin.—J. O. W. ] 
Gen. Oonotus,* Parry. 
Dorcus adspersus, Boheman, Ins. Caffr. 2, 384. | * 
Dorcus adspersus, Westw. Tr. Ent. Soc. Ser. 3, 1. 435, pl. xvi. 
fig. 6. 
A description and figure of the above species (from Port 
Natal), by Professor Westwood, will be found in the Trans- 
actions of the Society (1. c.) It appears, upon examination, to 
be so very aberrant in general form and character from those 
insects belonging to Dorcus proper, that I have no hesitation in 
proposing it as the type of a new genus; but as we are only 
acquainted with the female sex, it is unadvisable for the present 
to give any decided characters ; nevertheless the short mandibles, 
the abbreviate and convex form, the squamose texture of the 
body, with its rounded and anteriorly trituberculate prothorax, 
sufficiently warrant the creation of the proposed new genus. The 
above characters distinguish the insect from those smaller species 
of the Dorcide appertaining to the genera Sclerostomus and 
* °Qdv, v#res, in allusion to the convex back. 
