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■bedy together) it will then, I think, prove, as intimated above, to 

 be synonymous with L. qiiadr'tdens, Hope, a specimen of the 

 latter in my own collection corresponding so exactly with both 

 the description and figure of Swederus that it makes me very 

 much disposed to unite them together. 



Cladognathus curvipes, Hope, Cat. p. 25 ( $ ). 



$ C. subconvexus, niger, nilidus, tenue punctatus ; capita 

 magno, antice emarginato, crebre punctato, medio triangu- 

 lariter impresso, lateribus pone oculos inflatis ; mandibulis 

 capite vix longioribus, suberectis, apicibus acutis, intus pro- 

 funde excavatis et irregulariter denticulatis ; prothorace 

 lateribus (ut in $ ) subserratis, angulis anticis rotundatis, 

 posticis obtusis, spina minuta armatis; elytris angulis humera- 

 libus acutis ; tibiis anticis irregulariter serratis, intermediis 

 spina minuta instructis, posticis simplicibus. 



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



Hab. Ind. Or. Coll. Parry. 



In the female, which sex alone was known to Mr. Hope, the 

 anterior tibiae are curved exteriorly, whence the specific name ; 

 those of the male however are but very slightly curved. The small 

 lateral spine existing on the prothorax of the male is often very 

 indistinct in the female ; the rudiment however of it is mostly to 

 be traced. The peculiar formation of the mandibles in the 

 present insect, and its small size, render it one of the most con- 

 spicuous species of the genus in which, for the present, 1 have 

 placed it. 



Cladognathus rudis $, Westw.* (PI. XI. fig. 4.) 

 \_Dorcus {Prosopocoilus 1) rudis, Westw. 

 Fcemina. — Tota nigra, rude punctata ; elytris costatis, inter- 

 stitiis punctatissimis, capitis angulis anticis lateralibus 

 obliquis, oculis septo dimidiatim incisis ; prothoracis an- 

 gulis posticis oblique emarginatis, elytris angulo humerali 

 prominenti notatis. 

 Long. corp. (cum mandib.) lin. 10. 

 Hab. India vel Insulis Indicis ? In Mus. t). Parry. 



The unique insect on which this species is here proposed is 



a female of a glossy black colour, distinguished from the majority 



of the females of the genus Dqrcus by the oblique emargination of 



* See note * ante, p. 17. 



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