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more proiiiiiiml sJiouldcis, nearly i)arallel sides and less 

 produced extremities. Tlu' mandibles are more evenly curved 

 and have fewer tine teeth before and behind the strong middle 

 one. 



10. Lucanus groulti. 



Pseudolucanus groulti Plan.,* Le Naturaliste (2), xi, 1897, p. 227, 

 fig. ; Essai Monogr. i, 1898, p. 100, fig. 35 (not also fig. 36). 



$. Entirely black, shining and almost without hairy clothing 

 above or beneath, rather rectangular in shape, the hedd 

 coarsely rugose, the mandibles short, the basal half rugose, 

 the terminal half sliining, very sharply pointed, the imier 

 tooth very feeble ; pronotum smooth and shining in the middle, 

 punctured at sides, rugose near front angles, which are sharp, 

 the lateral margins strongly contracted behind, a Mttle excised 

 before the base, hind angles sharp and prominent, scutellum 

 tiiiely punctured ; elytra smooth and shining except at the 

 extremities. Front tibia stout, finely serrate between the 

 terminal fork and the two or three upper teeth. 



(^. Black, with the elytra and lower surface dark chocolate- 

 broAvn, the lower surface clothed with yellow hair, not very 

 conspicuous except upon the metasternum ; the femora and 

 tibise, except the front femora, blood-red, bordered with black. 



Moderately elongate, not very shining, the head densely 

 and confluently punctured, surrounded behind by a ridge, inter- 

 rupted in the niiddle, the front angles blunt, eye-ridge with 

 a minute i)osterior projection, the dypeal process short, 

 transverse i^ind tridentate in front ; jyro.iotmn entirely covered 

 with close and partly cojitluent punctures, with a deep median 

 fovea in front of the liind margin, the lateral margins strongly 

 dilated behind the middle and the hind angles extremely 

 blunt ; scutellum finely rugose ; ebjtra finely and densely 

 punctured, the punctures partly confluent, especially at the 

 sides, and the shoulders rounded. Prosternum rounded 

 behind. Front tibia fairly slender, the terminal fork long, 

 tips not very divergent, outer edge without tine serration, 

 spines of the middle and hind tibi» not very long. Sixth 

 joint of the antenna slightly produced, the club composed of 

 four rather short lamellae. 



Variation of the, male. The very small tooth at the iimer 

 edge of the mandible is sharp and simi)le in a small specimen, 

 and broader, consisting of two cusps, in larger ones. 



(^. Length (with mandibles), 32-39 mm. ; breadth, 13-15 mm. 



^+. Length, 34 mm. ; breadth, 15 mm. 



N. W. Frontikr Province. United Provinces : Kunayim, 

 Bhawali, 5()()(> ft., .lune. 



Ti/pi in M. lleiie Oberthur's collection. 



