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is made by Messrs. Hope, Burmeister or Reiche. In this re- 

 spect I feel disposed to agree witli Mr. M'Leay ; and, altlioiigli 

 unable to determine the species, have placed it in the catalogue 

 with the genus ^Hgus. 



DoRcus Klugii $ , Thomson, Cat. p. 424, 

 After a careful examination of a series of specimens of the 

 above insect from Assam, I feel satisfied that it must be con- 

 sidered as the var. max. of D. Dehaanii, the $ and J of which 

 species were originally described by Mr. Hope in the Trans. 

 Linn. See. vol. xix. p. 106; the latter name will therefore be 

 retained. The punctate-striate character of the elytra in the 

 females of the genus, of which the small undeveloped males par- 

 take, is strongly illustrated in D. Dehaanii. Some faint traces of 

 this character are to be remarked in the var. max., described for 

 the first time by Mr. J. Thomson, 



DoRcus DERELicTus ( ? ?), Parry. 



D. elongatus, niger, niiidus; capite inter oculos bituberculato; 

 mandil)ulis obsolete unidentatis ; elytris laevissimis, sub- 

 parallelis ; tibiis posterioribus extus subcurvatis, inerraibus, 

 intermediis unidentatis. 



Long. Corp. (mandib. incl.) unc. 1, lin. 5. 



Hab. Ind. Or. Himalaya. Coll. Parry. 



Elongate and narrow ; mandibles shorter than the head, slightly 

 curved, grooved above with a small tooth within near the apex. 

 Head excavated and punctured in front, smooth behind; between 

 the eyes are two very prominent conical tubercles. Clypeus 

 prominLMit, triangularly emarginate. Prothorax and elytra of the 

 same width, indistinctly but coarsely punctured on the sides. 

 Scutellum triangular, sparsely punctate. The anterior and pos- 

 terior tibiae slightly curved, the latter unarmed. 



While, on the one hand, the general form and tuberculated head 

 of the only specimen of the present species which has hitherto 

 come under my notice are almost essentially characteristic of the 

 female sex appertaining to this genus, on the other hand, the 

 slender anterior, and the unarmed posterior, tibiae are so utterly 

 anomalous, as to leave some doubt wlictlier it be really a female, 

 or a male with short undeveloped mandibles ; an acquaintance 

 with both sexes might perhaps remove it to the genus Eurj/tra- 

 chelus; for the present I have placed it with Dorcus. 



