52 LFCANID^. 



to the hind angles, which are well marked bi;t not acute. 

 The scutellum densely punctured. The elytra finely and very 

 closely j)unctured, the sides and apices very densely. All the 

 tibiee bear Yory strong lateral s])ines. 



(^. The head is very broad and the mandibles slender and 

 widely separated at the base. The head is flat, finely and 

 densely granular, the front angles strongly and sharply 

 produced laterally, the posterior lobes of the head strong but 

 not broad and the anterior ridge nearly straight. The eyes 

 are prominent and the ociilar canthi very feeble. The epistome 

 is tapering, truncate at the end, with a 2-cusped clypeal 

 process and a tooth on each side. The pronotum is short and 

 narrow, finely coriaceous, with its front margin strongly 

 trisinuate, the front angles bluntly produced, the lateral margin 

 nearly straight to the middle, where the angle is broadly 

 rounded, and again nearly straight to the blunt hind angle. 

 The elytra are fairly broad, very finely and densely punctured, 

 especially at the sides, which are opaque. 



Variation of the male. In small specimens the head is much 

 broader in front than behind, the mandibles gently rounded, 

 with numerous blunt tubercles very irregularly scattered along 

 the inner edge. In large examples the head is extremely 

 broad, scarcely broader in front than behind, the mandibles 

 are very strongly curved a little beyond the base and then 

 rather straight, with blunt tubercles to a little past the middle, 

 where there is a strong sharp tooth, followed by two or three 

 more tubercles. The tip is slightly forked. 



(J. Lewgff^ (with mandibles), 50-72 mm. ; (without mandibles) 

 38-57 mm. : breadth, 16-24 mm. 



$. Length, 40-42 mm. ; breadth, 17-19 mm. 



Darjeeling Distr. : Goi^aldhara, Rungbong Valley 

 {W. K. Webb) ; Pedong (L. Durel). 



Type in the Hope Dept., Oxford University Museum. 



According to E. A. D'Abreu (' The Beetles of the Himalayas ') 

 the trees upon which L. cantori is chiefly found are Castanopsis 

 tribuloides and Symplocos theeefolia. 



8. Lucanus mearesi. (Plate III, figs. 2, 6.) 



Lvcanns mearesi Hope,* Proc. Ent. Soo. Lond. 1842, p. 83 ; Wcstw., 

 Cab. of Orient. Ent. 1848, p. 21, pi. 10, fig. 1 ; Planet, Essai 

 Monogr. ii, 1898, p. 17, figs. 7 & 8. 

 V. Lucanvs nu/ripeti ?Iopc & Wcitw..* Cat. Luc. Col. 1845, p. 10. 



Rather narrowly elongate, the dorsal surface shining, 

 coppery in the mak>, black in tlie female, the bodj^ dotlied 

 with yellow hair, close on the lower surface, almost absent 

 from the greater part of tlie elytra. The club of tlie antenna 

 consists of four long lamella", and tlie preceding joint is not 

 produced. The prosteiinini slioit and r()un(le(l behind. 



