100 LUCANID^. 



processes. The mandibles are acute, not broad nor strongly 

 curved and there is only a feeble internal tooth. The elypeal 

 ])rocess is prominent, rounded and not broad. 



(^. The head is strongly punctured and has a slight lateral 

 prominence behind the eye on each side. The mandibles are 

 not much longer than those of the female but far apart. They 

 are strongly curved and have a prominent blunt internal 

 tooth placed just before the middle and directed obliquely 

 upward. The elypeal process is very short and broad, witli 

 the front margin straight. 



Variation of the malt. In the smallest examples the head 

 is rugosely punctured and the jjost-ocular process scarcely 

 apparent. In larger specimens the head is broader, flatter, 

 more finely and sparingly punctured, with the post-ocular 

 prominence very small but distinct. The mandibles are 

 relatively longer but always shorter than the head. 



^. Length (with mandibles), 16-23 mm. ; (without mandibles) 

 14-5-20 mm. : breadth, 7-9 mm. 



$. Length, 18-22 mm. ; breadth, 8-9-5 mm. 



S. India : Madura ; Shembaganur, Palni Hills, 6000 ft. ; 

 Kodaikanal, 5000-7000 ft. ; Travancore, Higli Range, 6000 ft. 



Type in the British Museum ; that of travancoricu.s in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



38. Dorcus fulvonotatus. (Plate XI, fig. 18.) 



Cladognathus fulvonotatus Parry, Proc. Ent. Soc, Lond. 18G.3, 

 p. Ill ; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1864, p. 28, pi. 6, fig. 3. 



Black, sometimes with a feeble metallic lustre upon the 

 elytra, the sides of the pronotum usually decorated with small 

 anterior and posterior orange spots and each elytron showing 

 a curvilinear orange streak near the extremity, almost reaching 

 the suture, sometimes continued in a straight line to near the 

 shoulder but more often interrupted in the middle and nv 

 appearing behind the shoulder. The femora orange-coloured 

 in the middle and the tibia? and abdomen may b(^ red. Nar- 

 rowly elongate, and not very convex, with the elytra extremely 

 smooth and shining dorsally but with broad closely jjunctured 

 outer margins. The pronotum short and broad, with the 

 lateral margins rounded and the front angles a little produced. 

 The prosternum strongly elevated behind and vertical, not 

 pointed. The antennae short, the three club-joints moderately 

 long and the seventh joint sharply produced. 



$. The head is coarsely punctured, longitudinally grooved 

 behind with a minute tubercle on each side of the groove. 

 The clypc^al process is transversely rounded and the mandibles 

 aie narrow, very acute, each with a strong internal tooth. 

 The pronottitn and elytra are very shining, the former very 



