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the eyes laterally and the eye-ridges are not sharp at the end. 

 The injindibles are sliort and very strongly and regularly 

 rounded, together forming more than half a eirele, and eaeh 

 has a mmute internal tooth near the middle, sometimes al)sent. 

 The pronotum. is distinctly, rather evenly but not closel}', 

 })unctured and very shining, except at the sides, which are 

 dull. The elytra are very smooth and shining, except at the 

 extreme lateral margins and apices. 



S. Le;igr</t (with mandibles), 28-41 nnn. ; (without mandibles) 

 25-34 mm. : breadth, 14-16 mm 



$. Length, 26 mm. ; breadth, 12 mm. 



Nepal: {Maj.-Gen. Hardwicke). Darjeeling Dlstk. : 

 Ghoom, 7000 ft. (*S'. Kemp); Kurseong. 



Type in the British Museum. 



14. Lucanus oberthuri. 



Pacudolucanus oberthuri Plan.,* Le Naturaliste, 1896, p. 27i( ; Kaaai 

 Monogr. i, 1898, p. 13, figs. 4 & .'. 



Entirely black, the lower surface clothed with yellow hair, 

 moderately long and close upon the metasternum. Fairly 

 elongate; and convex, with the prothorax rather narrow, its 

 front angles sharp, the lateral margins very bluntly angular 

 in the middle and the hind angles not very obtuse. The 

 scutellum scarcely punctured behind, where there is a median 

 carina. The elytra very glossy in the male, dull in the female, 

 witli the shoulders rounded and the apices sooty and opaque. 

 The club of the antenna not very long, the seventh joint not 

 cjuite as long as the three terminal joints, and the sixth 

 slightly produced. The front tibia tinely serrate and with 

 three sharp lateral teeth. The })rosternal process blunt. 



$. The head is coarsely rugose, with the exception of a 

 small, smooth median patch behind, and the anterior angles 

 are sharp. The pronotum is very finely and sparsely punctured, 

 except at the extreme margins, wliich are closely punctured. 

 The elytra are finely coriaceous and opaque, without visible 

 punctures, but rather less dull in the anterior part. Tlie 

 front tibia is very broad, with the termmal fork strongly 

 bilobed. 



cJ. The head is finely coriaceous and opaque, except in the 

 posterior part, where it is shining, the upper surface surrounded 

 by a ridge interrupted in the middle behind. The anterior 

 angles project a little beyond the eyes. The mandibles are 

 short and very strongly curved and each has a slight internal 

 tooth near the middle. The pronotum is densely coriaceous 

 and opaque, exce])t in the middle, where it is shining and 

 tinely and sparingly punctured. The elytra are very smooth 

 and shining, except at the extremities. The front lrqf< are 



