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Lamprima sumptuosa ^ , Hope, Cat. p. 28. 



L. supra tota flamineo-rufescens, punctata ; mandibulis valde 

 curvatis, apice nigris, elevatis et auriculatis ; sterni processu 

 apice nigro et suboblique truncato ; elytris irregulariter sub- 

 striolatis ; tibiis anticis extus 6 vel 7-spinosis ; calcare 

 gracili, cultriformi ; pedibus 4 posticis gracilibus, tibiis in 

 medio bidentatis ; corpore infra cupreo et seneo, nitidissimo. 



Long. Corp. (mandib. inclus.) lin. 9. 



Hab. Swan River. 



A good species belonging to the second section of Lamprima. 

 A single specimen only in the Hopeian collection at Oxford. 



Gen. Colophon, Westw. Ann. Sc. Nat. i., ser. 2, p. 113. 



The general form of the species of this genus exhibits such a 

 remarkable difference from the insects pertaining to the family 

 DorcidcE, in which it has been hitherto located, that after a careful 

 comparison with various genera, more especially with Lamprima 

 and Streplocerus (to which the only two species of the genus 

 Colophon, viz. C. Weshvoodli and C. Thunbergii, in the form of 

 the prothorax and of the head as well as in the structure of the 

 mandibles, bear, I think, a somewhat striking resemblance), I 

 have been induced to place it in the same family, Chiasognathidce, 

 of which it may be regarded as the African representative. I 

 place it in juxtaposition with Streptoccrus, which it further 

 resembles in possessing four joints to the clava of the antennae, 

 and thus affords a connecting link with the Lucanidce. 



Mesotopus Tarandus ? . (PI. V. fig. 4.) 



Lucanus Tarandus $ , Swed. in Act. Holm. 1787, iii. 186, 

 tab. viii. fig. 2. 



M. ebenina nigra, nitidissima ; capite subrugoso-punctato, an- 

 tice excavato, bispinoso, postice Isevi, politissimo ; mandibulis 

 brevibus, trigonis, intus bidentatis ; elytris subovalibus ; tibiis 

 extus ut in maribus 3-dentatis. 

 Long. Corp. (mandib. inch) unc. 1, lin. 6. 

 Hab. Afric. Occ. 



The female, now for the first time figured, has hitherto been of 

 extreme rarity. The only specimens of that sex with which I am 

 acquainted are in the cabinets of the late Rev. F. W. Hope, 

 Count Mniszech and my own. 



