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lY. Descriptions of new species of Imcanoid Coleoptera ; 

 with remarhs on the genus Cantharolethrus, and 

 supplementary list. By Major F. J. S. Parry, 

 F.L.S. {including descriptions hy M. Snellen Van 

 VoUenhoven, and Prof. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S.) . 



[Bead 5tli February, 1872.] 



Sphenognathus armatus, $ Parry, n. s. (var. max.). 

 PL I. fig. 3. 



S. viridi-opacus metallicus, brunneo-tinctus, partim 

 nitente cupreo-viridis. Pedes concolores. Mandibulce 

 capite prothoraceque paulo breviores, robustse, por- 

 rectee, leviter arcuatae, granulosae, apicibus curvatis ; 

 supra in medium elevates, et prope basin denticulo sub- 

 erecto, instructge, interne fere ad apicem serratse. Caput 

 transversum, lateribus fere rectis ; antice elevato-emargi- 

 natum, cum prothorace grosse et irregulariter punctatum, 

 angulis ante oculos acutis (antennse mutilatse) . Prothorax 

 transversus, convexus, lateribus subrotundatis, minute 

 crenulatis, angulis posticis obliquis, denticulo parvo 

 instructis ; disco basi binodoso et prope angulos posticis 

 impressione profundo notato. Elytra prothorace latiora, 

 elongata, convexis, fere parallela, sub lente minute granu- 

 losa, irregulariter vermiculata, prope scutellum glabra ; 

 angulis humeralis rotundatis; scutello subrotundato, 

 tenuiter punctulato. Pedes robusti, tibiis anticis intus et 

 extus, fortiter sed irregulariter armatis ; tibiis, 4 posticis, 

 spinis acutis 8 vel 9 instructis ; tarsis ciliatis. Corpus 

 subtus scutello regioque valde et longe fulvo- aut griseo- 

 pilosa. Mandibulae intus pone apicem, caput, prothoracis 

 latera, femoraque subtus, pube fulva, longe, irregulariter 

 et obsolete, tectis. 



Eah. — Colombia. Mus. Saunders. 



Long. corp. lin. 15 ; lat. lin. 7 ; long, mandib. lin. 5. 



This interesting new species, is allied both to 8. Lin- 

 denii and S. Feisthamelii, but its conspicuously greater 

 length and width, in comparison with all the other 

 species of the genus {S. Granti excepted) , as well as its 



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