56 TiUCATs^IDJE. 



The two specimens described by Planet are without locahty- 

 labels and, as they were not originally associated, there is 

 no reason tt) suj)i)ose that they M'ere found in tlie same place. 

 A i)air presented to tlie Biitish Museum by INIr. E. i\ Cilmour 

 wert^ taken together in Biiawali, but the female does not agree 

 with that described and ligured by Planet, which no doubt 

 belongs to another species. According to the author, it was 

 considered by its former owner, Mniszech, to be a female of 

 L. westermanni. 



li. Lucanus dohertyi. 



Lucanus dohertyi Boil.,* 'J'rans. Ent. Soc. Loud. I'Jll, p. 435, 



pi. 34, fig. 2. 

 L. laininifer var. minor, Wat., Aiui. Mag, Nat. Hist, (li), v, ISUU, 



p. 33. 



(J. Black or almost black, with the legs and abdomen very 

 dark red, the lower surface t^lothed fairly closely with greyish 

 hair, longest (but not very long) on the metastenium, the head, 

 prouotum and scutellum clothed with very short, close-lying 

 settB and the elytra almost naked. 



Broad and compact, with the head and prouotum opaque 

 and tlie elytra ratlier smooth and shining. The head is not 

 very broad, densely graiudar, surrounded by a ridge widely 

 interrupted in the middle behind and a little elevated in the 

 middle in front. The front angles are sharply produced 

 laterally and the eye-i'idge is rather prominent behind. The 

 elypeal process is ratlier sharply produced and without lateral 

 tubercles. The maiidible is evenly rounded externally and 

 bears a not very strong internal tooth beyond the middle 

 and a smaller one midway l)etween the last and the terminal 

 fork. The antennal club consists of four long lamelhv, the 

 first at least as long as those succeeding it. The pwnotiDti 

 is short, rugosely jnuutured at the sides antl lini'ly coriaceous 

 in the middle, the lateral uiargins very strongly angulate 

 behind the micklle, nearly straight from tiie angle to the 

 front and hind margins, the front angle a little produced, the 

 hind angle rounded. The puneturation of the dytra is extremely 

 tine excei)t at the sides and apices ; the latter only are opa(j[ue. 

 The prosterniitii is not ])rominent behind. The outer edge of 

 the front tibiu is feebly crenulate (not tinely serrati') and bears 

 three or four sharp teeth, and the termiiuil fork is long but 

 not strong. The four ])()sterit)r tibia- are very sti'ongly spined 

 externally and the un'ddle ones are s]uir])ly tridentate. 



Litiijth (with uiaiidibk's), 4S mm. ; (without mancUbles) 

 38 mm. : hicddlh, l(i i) nnu. 



Assam : Naga Hills ( I ^^ Do/icrttf). 



Typi in tlu^ liiili^li .Mu.^eum. 



