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XXII. Description of a new species of Eurytrachelus 

 (Coleoptera, Dorcidae). By Chas. 0. Waterhouse. 



[Read November 7th, 1883.] 



Plate XXI. 



Ewry 'tracheitis pilosipes, n. s. (PL XXI., fig. 1). 



Niger, depressus, subopacus ; mandibulis capite duplo 

 longioribus, ad medium dente sat magna acutiuscula 

 armatis, ultra medium denticulis 3 vel 4, et intra apicem 

 dente parvo instructis ; tibiis posticis inermibus, ad 

 apicem fulvo-pilosis, tarsis subtus longe fulvo-pilosis. 

 Long. corp. 18 lin., mandib. 8 lin. 



Black, tinted with pitchy colour below. Head and 

 thorax densely and finely granulose ; the elytra cori- 

 aceous ; altogether more finely sculptured than E. con- 

 color. Head twice as broad as long, with the sides 

 parallel. Epistoma rather broad, about one-quarter of 

 the width of the head immediately in front of the eyes ; 

 arcuately emarginate in front ; the angles rather acute, 

 but not very prominent. Mandibles as in E. concolor, 

 not carinate above, but gently convex ; strongly curved, 

 and acuminate at the apex. At the middle there is a 

 moderately large, rather acute, tooth ; immediately 

 beyond this (nearer the apex) there are three (or four) 

 small teeth placed close together : this part of the 

 mandible, when viewed from the under side, appears 

 like a dilation of the mandible, and is more opaque 

 than the rest of the surface, the apex . of the teeth 

 shining : at a short distance from the apex there is 

 another small tooth. Thorax as in E. concolor. Elytra 

 as long as the head and thorax together (including the 

 epistoma) ; much less narrowed towards the apex than 

 in E. concolor, and more obtuse at the apex. Prosternum 

 between the anterior coxae rather broader than in E. 

 concolor, sloping down posteriorly, with no tendency to 

 form a projection. Abdomen with the middle portion of 

 the margins of the segments beset with short yellowish 

 hairs ; and at the apex of the terminal segment there is 



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