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Major Parry's Catalogue 



Comparative View of the Number of Species of Lucanoid 



Coleoptera possessed by the Authors of the fulloiving 



Catalogues at the periods of publication. 



Species. 



1845. Rev. F. W. Hope, Cat. Lucan., records 165 



From which deduct those wliich have proved to be only liie 

 other sex of establislied species or mere varieties of de- 

 velopment 37 



Total , 



1862. Mr. James Thomson, Cat. Lucan., records 

 From which deduct as above 



Total . 



1-28 



190 

 9 



181 



l864. Major Parry, Cat. Lucan., records 332 



From which deduct the desiderata to his collection, as 



notified in the Synopsis by the marks • and f 69 



Total. 



263 



Count IMniszech's collection probably contains about the same number of 

 species as my own. 



The following are the names of the formerly reputed species deducted as above 

 fiom the Catalogues of Mr. Hope and Mr. Thomson : — 



I nmprima Schreibersii, 



Tasmania:, 

 I.ucanus Hircus. 



II i gripes $ . 



Americanus, 



lleiarthtiusfalciger. 



loiigipennis ^ . 

 seiricoUis $ . 

 Metopodoitus uiigulatus. 

 omissus, 

 aslacoides. ' 

 J'ralertius. 

 fiitvipes. 

 rrosnpncoilus speciilifer. 

 piceipeiinis, 

 kayersii. 

 J .eplinopterus fuuerens. 



sarcorhamplius. 

 Odontolabis serrifer, 



atii'ulalus. 



Rhv. F. W. Hope. 



Odimtolabis tenuipes $• 

 Macrognalhus Downesii $ . 

 Parryi. 

 bulbosus, 

 Platyprosopus Cheorotatii, 

 puuctilabris, 

 Blanchardi. 

 duhiiis, 

 incertus, 

 indetermiiiatus. 

 Dorcus Bengalensis, 

 curiideiis, 

 lateralis 9 • 

 rugifrons $ . 

 inermis J . 

 puiiclioer J . 

 tnbaiigulatus J . 



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