MERISTIC VARIATION. [PART I. 



tlii- is a p... ible i .lit i.. 11 is ].i-.. ved beyond doubt by the 



succeeding case. 



/.'////// Anti'ii/iii. Scape precisely as in left antenna. The 

 I-: funicular (2nd ant. unary) has two sockets at its apex, placed 

 like those "ii tin- :!id funicular of the left side, the ant. Tim- socket 

 I., in- tin- lower and the posterior socket being the higher. The 

 anterior sockel bears a normal right antenna,?' 3 . The posterior 

 bears the struciiire shewn in the figure. This appendage has 

 unfortunately been broken, but enough remains to suggest the 

 original structure. It con.-ists of five funicular and a 1st club- 

 join!. The .1th joint of the whole funiculus bears a large socket 

 lo. .king downuanls and forwards, its other socket looking back- 

 wards and upwards. rYom the former the original continuation 

 ha- been lo>t. The latter bears the 6th funicular and its 1st 

 club-joint, this ,-IL;HIII ha-\ ing an empty socket. 



The plane of the two sockets of the 5th funicular is oblique 

 to the hnri/on. like that of /' and /'-'. Though it is clearly im- 

 p"-- ible to shew how this antenna was in its unbroken state, 

 \\e may note that it' it were continued in the way suggested 

 by the dotted lines it would have borne a complementary pair 

 of clubs, ?' and /'-'. like /' and /- of the other side, placed like 

 them in an oblique plane nearly corresponding with DPP of the 



Sell el Me. 



This specimen was kindly entrusted to me by M. Henri 

 Cad.-au de Kerville. He tells me that he believes a description 

 nf it has already appeared, but this I have failed to find. I 

 have therefore ventured to describe it again, with apologies to 

 the original describer. The specimen bears a label in the hand- 

 writing of the late Major Parry and was no doubt in his cele- 

 brated collection of Lucanidse. 



800. Melolontha vulgaris : right antenna bearing a pair of incomplete 

 supernumerary antennas (Fig. 177). The first joint is normal ; it bears a 

 second .joint of singular form, consisting of a long anterior branch, and 

 a short posterior branch ! the length of the anterior. The anterior 

 bears two clubs in the manner shewn in the figure (Fig. 177). Of these 



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]-'i>.. 177. Mi'lnliititltn rul : /<tri.<. N... son. Lettered ;uvc>nlin<,' to the view that 

 i- the noiiiiiil i-i^'ht cluli. /,, tlie Mi]ieniuiner;i,y lot't, and 11' the supernumeniry 

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