﻿12 Major Parry's Catalogue 



Hexarthrius BowRiNGii i , Parry (var. max., ? ignota). 



(PI. IX. figs. 5 Sc 7.) 

 H. nigro-fuscus, nitidus ; antennarum clava 6-articulata, mandi- 

 bulis apice subrecurvis, intus 3-dentatis, dente loet Sdopone 

 medium, tertio ad basin subfurcato ; tibiis anticis serratis, 

 intermcdiis unidentatis, posticis simplicibus. 

 Long. Corp. unc. 2 ; mandib, lin. 9. 

 Hab. Ind. Or. 



Black. Elytra of a polished ferruginous brown. Mandibles 

 somewhat flattened, more especially at the base, strongly punc- 

 tured ; tips acute and bending upwards ; a sharp prominent tooth 

 behind the tip, succeeded by a smaller one, and at the baseabi-oad 

 obtusely bifid and slightly elevated process. Head closely punc- 

 tured, with the hind margin highly polished, and two small round 

 anterior depressions on the vertex, very slightly emarginate; 

 clypeus small, deflexed and triangular. The prothorax is about 

 the width of the body ; like the head closely punctured, with a 

 slightly impressed central line ; the posterior angles slightly emar- 

 ginate. Elytra polished, ferruginous brown, darkest on the 

 suture and at the sides. Legs ferruginous, margined and varied 

 with black. Tarsi black ; anterior tibiae serrated externally with 

 three or four small irregularly disposed spines, the apical tooth 

 very prominent and much curved. 



Gen. Odontolabis, Hope. 

 Anoplocnemus, Id. 



The genus Anoplocnemus, Hope (vid. Tr. Ent. Soc. iii. 279), 

 was founded on and included only a single species, viz., A. Bur- 

 vicisleri (Hope, Cat, pp. 5 and 16), a gigantic species from the 

 Mysore district, Northern India, at present in the Hopeian Coll. 

 at Oxford (and which may possibly hereafter prove to be only an 

 extreme \&t\ety o{ Odontolabis Cuvera). The principal character 

 assigned to the genus is the absence of s])ines from all the tibiae. 

 As in every other respect there is nothing to distinguish it from 

 the ordinary form and character of the several species belonging 

 to Odontolabis, which, when fully developed, have almost invariably 

 their fore tibiae unarmed, I have incorporated Anoplocnemus with 

 Odontolabis, of which genus numerous species have lately been 

 added to our collections. 



1 am at a loss to imagine why Dr. Burmeister preferred esta- 

 blishing ^no/3/oc7?c??H<s as a genus in preference to Odontolabis, RJr. 

 Hope having notified only one species of the former to fourteen 

 of the latter. 



