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DORCUS DERELICTUS ( Ç) ?), Parry. 



D. elongatus, niger, nitidus; ca-pite inter oculos biï7ibercu- 

 lato ; mandibidis obsolète unidentatis ; elytris lœvissimis, sub- 

 farallelis; tibiis fosterioribus extus subcurvatis, inermibus, 

 intermediis unidentatis. 



Long. corp. (mandib. incl.) une. i, lin. 5. 



Hab. — Ind. Or. Himalaya. Coll. Parry. 



Elongate and narrow; mandibles shorter than the head, 

 slig-htly cur.ved, groowed above with a small tooth within 

 near the apex. Head excavated and puncturated in front, 

 smooth behind; between the eyes are two very proéminent 

 conical tubercles. Clypeus proéminent, triangularely emar- 

 ginate. Prothorax and elytra of the same width, indistinctly 

 but coarsely punctured on the sides. Scutellum triangular, 

 sparsely punctate. The anterior and posterior tibia slightly 

 curved, the latter unarmed. While, on the one hand, the 

 gênerai form and tuberculated head of the only spécimen of 

 the présent species which has hitherto corne under my notice 

 are almost essentially characteristic of the female sex apper- 

 taining to this genus, on the other hand, the slender anterior, 

 and the unarmed posterior, tibias are so utterly anomalous, as 

 to leave some doubt whether it be really a female, or a maie 

 with short undevelopped mandibles; an acquaintance with 

 both sexes might perhaps remove it to the genus Eurytra- 

 chelus; for the présent I hâve placed it with D or eus (1). 



(1) Cette description n'est que la reproduction légèrement améliorée et 

 commentée de la diagnose primitive parue en 1862 dans les Proceedings of 

 the Entomological Society of London. 



D. elongatus, niger, nltidus ; capite inter oculos bituberculato ; mandibulis 

 obsolète unidentatis. Elytris laevissimis, subparallelis, Tibiis posterioribus 

 extus subcurvatis, inermibus. 



Long. corp. (mand. incl.) une. 1, lin. 5. 



Hab- Ind. Or. Himalaya. Coll. Parry, 



