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marked, but not acute. The front fihiti. is strongly bifurcate 

 at the end. 



(^. The head is densely coriaceous and o|ia(|Uc, its outei' 

 margin outhned l)V a stiong ridgt-, interru])ted in tlie middle 

 behind and nearly straight in fr(jnt. The anterior angles of 

 the head are sharp, projecting a little beyond the eyes, and 

 the eye-ridges are produced as minute spines at the end. The 

 clypeus is not forked but has a slight two-cusped ridge and 

 the epistome rounded, not acute, at the end. The pronotioti is 

 linely and densely granular and opaque, excejit in front of tlie 

 scutellum. The front angles are sharply produced, the sides 

 strongly luit bluntly angulatc behind the middle and the hind 

 angles distinct but slightly oljtuse. The shoulders of the 

 flyfra are sharply angular. The front tibia is very strongly 

 and sharply toothed at the side and the j)rongs of the terminal 

 fork are moderately long. 



Variation of the male. The large type-specimen has the 

 mandibles long and stout, gently curved outwards, rather 

 strongly bent downwards, bifurcate at the eiid, with the 

 prongs long and strongly divergent, a strong internal tooth 

 near the middle and minute serrations between it and the 

 terminal fork. In a smaller example (probably a co-type) in 

 M. Oberthur's collection there is little downward curvature of 

 the mandible, and the extremity, instead of a terminal fork, 

 bears only a small tooth near the tip. The clyjieus bears 

 two slight lateral teeth. 



cJ. Length (with mandibles), 48-61 mm. ; (without mandibles) 

 35-43 mm. : breadth, 15-19 nmi. 



$. Length, 31 nun. ; breadth, 13-5 mm. 



Nepal : (Maj.-Gen. Hardwicke). 



Type in the Britisii Museum ; co-types ((^ and $) in 

 M. Oberthiir's collection. 



7. Lucanus cantori. (IMatc 111, lig. i ; Plate V, fig. 4.) 



Lucanxts cantori Hope,* Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1842, p. 83 ; Planet, 

 Edsai Monogr. ii, 1899, p. 57, figs. 29, 30. 



Blackish-brown, with the elytra reddish- brown, except at 

 the imier and outer margins, and the femora with the inner 

 part, except at the entls, bright orange. The body clothed 

 above and beneath with very fine close-lying yellowish-grey 

 hair. Rather broad and convex. The club of the antenna 

 composed of four long joints of equal length. The prosternum 

 slightly ])rominent and rounded behind. 



$. The head is very densely rugose and only very bluntly 

 angulate before the eye. The pronotum is strongly and closely 

 punctured, densely and rugosely at the sides. The front 

 angles are blunt, the lateral margins gently rounded to beyond 

 the middle, where the angle is very blunt, and feebly concave 



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