﻿6i< Major Parry's Catalogue 



This species is readily distinguished by its short, robust and 

 convex form, and by the absence of the minute tubercle in the 

 centre of the anterior margin of the prothorax which characterizes 

 most of the allied species. The number of external spines on the 

 tibia; appears to be most variable in this genus ; no instance, 

 however, being known to me in which they are entirely wanting. 



Penichrolucanus copricephalus, H. DcyroUe, Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. Ser. iv. vol. 3, p. 485 ; pi. ix. fig. 11, and details. 



The aberrant characters exhibited in this singular insect from 

 Malacca (vid. 1. c), recently described from a uniijue specimen 

 in Count Mniszech's Collection, preclude the possibility of assign- 

 ing, with any degree of certainty, its true position in tlie Luca- 

 noidea. It is even, I believe, still a matter of doubt among many 

 Entomologists whether the species in question ought to be referred 

 at all to this division of the Coleoptera. 1 have nevertheless placed 

 it temporarily near Figulus, bearing, as it does, some similarity to 

 the species of that genus, and equally, perhaps, also to the genera 

 Nigidius and Agnus, the latter appearing to form the passage 

 between Nigidius and Figulus. 



Figulus vulneratus, Thomson, Cat. p. 433. 



The type specimen of the above-named species from Mada- 

 gascar has obligingly been communicated to me for examination 

 by Mr. Thomson. It appears to me to be specifically identical 

 with F. anlhraci7ius, Klug (vid. Ins. v. Madagasc. 85, n. 11(5), 

 differing only in the confused position of the punctures forming 

 in the normal state the dorsal striae by which the elytra are 

 characterized. Mr. Thomson (p. 402) appears to be of the same 

 o|)inion with Dr, Burmeister as to this species being synonymous 

 with Fig. sublcevis of Palissot de Bcauvois, from Africa, and 

 noticed by Professor Westwood, as a distinct species, in the Ent. 

 Mag. V. 262, sp. 3. If the several specimens received from 

 Senegal, Guinea and Bassan are identical with Palissot's insect, it 

 is very evident, upon comparison with the Madagascar species, 

 that the two are distinct. 



Figulus scaritiformis ^ , Parry (var. minor). 

 F. scaritiformis, Parry, Proc. Ent. Soc. 18C2, p. 113. 



F. parvulus, rufo-piccus ; capite grosse punctato ; prothorace 

 laevigato, latcribus vagc ct rude punctato, medio canaliculato, 



