Louis Péringuey
Published: 2016-09-09
Total Pages: 302
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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae) Fuscous or dark chestnut-brown, with a faint greenish-bronze tinge on the frontal part of the head, and on the discoidal part of the prothorax, it has no sericeous sheen, the under side is lighter chestnut-brown than the upper, and so are the legs, the antennal club is fiavous in the male, and not longer than the pedicel, the sixth joint is almost rudimentary, but still visible under a high power, in the female the club is reddish-brown, and the joints of the pedicel normal; this species looks at first sight like a very small example of A. Lucidula, but the frontal part is broadly and very deeply punctate all over, and has a median slightly raised longi tudinal line; the prothorax is similarly shaped, and there is a minute hair in each puncture; the scutellum and elytra are also alike, and each puncture bears a minute greyish hair, the dark tessellation is also not very plain in some examples and more so in others, but the first interval is broader than the others, plainly convex and tectiform, and so are the other dorsal ones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."