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Description of n new species of the Lacanohl f/enus Cantharuletli- 

 rus, Thomson ; by Major F. J. Sidney PxVrry, F.L.8. 



C. Steinhelli, Parry, n. sp. ( ^ var. uied.). 



C. niger, nitidissimiis, giaberrimus. Mandihiildi elytris paulo 

 breviores, robustie, arcuata;, supra leviter canaliculataj, intiis 

 prope basin binodoso-dentatae, ad apicem fortiter bifurcatai, et 

 dente acuto subarmatie. Capmt fere quadratuin, antice einargi- 

 natum, disco triangulariter excavato, sub lente sparsiiu irregulari- 

 ter punctulatuiii, clypeo parvo, nodoso, vix conspicuo. Anteiuue 

 elongatai, articulis cylindricis, clava griseo-velutinosa. Prothorax 

 transversus, sparsim punctutatus, in medio longitudinaliter canali- 

 culatus, postice impressionibus duabus sat profunde notatus, 

 lateribus antice dilatatis, marginibus minute serrulatis, angulis 

 posticis obliqixis, emarginatis. Elytra glabra, linea marginali 

 reflexa, punctata, humeris prominulis spina minima nodosa 

 instructis. Scittellum sparsim punctulatum. Pedes punctati, 

 tibiis anticis apicem versus tuberculis minutis irregulariter 

 armatis. Suhtus pectore, capiteque lateribus varioloso-punctatis. 

 Long. Corp. unc. 1, mandib. lin. 5. 



Hab. Columbia; sp. un. Mus. vSteinheil. 



For the opportunity of describing this new and interesting 

 species I am indebted to Mr. Edward Steinheil, of Munich, who 

 has kindly entrusted it to me with other interesting Lucanoid 

 Coleoptera found by him in his recent travels in Central America. 



Mr. Steinheil informs me that he found two specimens oidy, 

 ^ and ^ (dead), in the month of March, near Santa llosa, in the 

 central Cordilleras, between Cartago and Mauizales ; the same 

 traveller also discovered examples, ^ and ^ , of G. Luxeri, but 

 in a different locality, (East Columbia). The female of the latter 

 is evidently identical with the insect recently described as C. 

 Luxeri ^, from a specimen in the British Museum, by Mr. 

 Charles 0. Waterhouse, (Cist. Ent. I, p. 364), and wiU probably 

 prove identical with Pholklotus Reichei, Hope, the type speci- 

 men of which is now in Mr. Thomson's collection, and has been 

 noted by him (Ann. Hoc. Ent. Fr. 4e. Ser. II) as being possibly 



