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LUCANIDiE. 279
Lucanus hopei, Parry, sericans, "VoH.,=maculifemoratus, Mots.; Hexarthrius
chaudoiri, Deyr., = rhinoceros (01.) : Parry, Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 56.
The author recharacterizes this group, which he restricts to Mesotopus,
Lucanus, Pseudolueanus, Bhcetus, and HexaHhrius. Pseudolueanus, proposed
by Hope for capreolus Ch.) and atratus (Hope), is extended by him to barbarossa
(F.) and mazama (Lee) ; figured by Parry, pi 1. f. 1; and, attributing
slight importance to Hope's character of the head of the 3 n °t heing
angulated above, he considers the mandibles to afford the least variable diagnostic
guide for it, stating that they seldom exceed the length of the head,
are always strongly curved, and never present more than one tooth on their
inner edge.
Odontolabides.
PARRY (Tr. E. Soc. 1870, p. 74) considers that Odontolabis, Chalcodes,
Heierochthes, and Neolucanus, hitherto located in the Lucanides, present sufficient
characters in common to distinguish them from that subfamily and
from his Cladognathides. These characters are :—clava of ant. triarticulate,
the leaflets being but moderately produced; clypeus remarkably small; eyes
divided in both sexes by a canthus; ant. tibiae in $ often considerably
curved, with variable armature, 4 post, tibiae in both sexes invariably unarmed.
The author figures (pi. iii. figs. 4, 5, 6) three forms of the mandibles
of Odontolabis castelnaudi, Parry, and briefly recharacterizes Westwood's
Chalcodes. Odontolabis gracilis, Kaup, = bellicosus (Lap.), var. max.; O. incequalis
(Ksxcp) = bicolor (01), var.; Neolucanus baladeva (Hope, Odont.)
and angulatus (Hope)=to»ia (01.) : Parry, I. c.
Cladognathides.
PARRY (I. c. p. 75) unites Cladognathus, Psalidoremus, Metopodontus,
Prosopocoilus, Homoderus, Cyclommatus, Prismognathus, Cantharolethrus,
Leptinopterus, Metadorcus, g. n, and Maerocrates under this head, distinguishing
them from the Odontolabides by their eyes never (except in 2 spp.
of Prosopocoilus) being entirely divided by a canthus, and by the ant. tibiae.
in S being straight, and the 4 post, tibiae variably armed in $ and unidentate
(except as above) in §. The invariable want of tubercles on the
head of the female separates them from certain of the Dorcidce, to which they
appear otherwise closely allied.
Cladognathus impressus, C. 0. Waterh, is now ascertained to be a Metopodontus,
and is figured pi. iii. f. 1; C. 4-nodosus, Parry, =m'clellandi, Hope,
var. max.; the $ of Prosopocoilus wcdlacii, Parry, from Gilolo, is described;
P. natalensis, Parry, pi ii. figs. 6,9, and P. approximates, Parry, pi. iii. figs. 2,
7, are figured, and the Indian locality of P. perplexus, Parry, is substantiated;
the generic characters of Aulacostethus (C. O. Waterh.) are discussed,
and deemed insufficient to remove A. archeri from Prosopocoilus; Prosopocoilus
crenicollis, Thoms.,=bulbosus (Hope, Tr. Linn. Soc. nee Cat. Lue) =
spencii (Hope), which is figured pi. ii. fig. 1; P. 4-dens (Hoye) =antilopus
(Swed.) ; additional characters are given for Homoderus (Parry) ; Cyclommatus
maitlandi, ¥&rvy,=faunicolor (Hope), var. max.; Cyclorasis jekelii,
Ptory,=Prismognathus subceneus (Mots.), of which dauricus (Mots.) is 5 ;
Metopodontus savagii (Hope) is figured pi. ii, cS var. min. f. 4, var. max. f. 7:
Parry, I. c.