108 LUCANID^. 



The figure 33 of Dr. Didier's work, although called 

 Euri/trachelus fidir/inosus, does not agree with the accom- 

 panying description and was probably included by accident. 



43. Dorcus submolaris. (Plate IX, fig. 9.) 



Tmcanus submoUxris Hope & Westw.,* Cat. Luc. Col. 1845, p. 2.3. 

 Eurytrfichelus aubmolarif Boil., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1913, p. 251, 



pi. 9, fig. 10 ; Gravely, Ind. Mus. Rec. ix, 1915, p. 424, pi. 29, 



fig. 4. 

 Dorcus brachycerus Boil., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1904, p. 27. 

 Eurytrachelus fuliginosus Did.,* Col. Luc. du Globe, 1928, p. 77, 



fig. 34. 



Black, fairly broad and depressed, more or less shining 

 above, the female with closely striate elytra, the male rather 

 smooth above, except in dwarfed specimens. The eyes small, 

 the ocular canthus narrow and not prominent, but extending 

 far back and almost dividing the eye. The prosternum not 

 pointed but forming a rounded projection behind the coxae. 



9- Elongate -oval, with the legs short and stout. The head 

 is strongly, closely and rather rugosely jjunctured, with two 

 slightly elevated tubercles placed transversely in the middle 

 and not far apart. The sides of the head diverge a little 

 behind but are not prominent. The pronotum is very smooth 

 and shining, with a few fine jmnctures, generally forming an 

 imperfect double series in the middle of the posterior half. 

 The sides are very strongly and closely punctured, the punctures 

 extending round the basal margin and forming a smgle series 

 in the middle. The front angles are blunt, the lateral edges 

 feebly curved to the lateral angle, which is obtuse, and almost 

 straight from there to the base. The scutellnm is very minutely 

 jjunctured. The elytra have very acute shoulders, the dorsal 

 ])art is punctate-striate but not very deeply, the second 

 interval broad and shining with a few punctures along the 

 middle, and the sides are densely and rugosely punctured. 

 The metasternum is densely and rugosely grarmlar at tiie 

 sides and finely punctured in the middle and the abdomen is 

 finely punctured in the middle and coarsely pitted at the 

 sides. The front tibia is broadly bifid at the end and the 

 middle and hind tibiae have each a rather strong spine beyond 

 the middle of the outer edge. 



(J. Smooth, not very shining, except in dwarfed specimens, 

 the head and pronotum opaque, the sides of the head slightly 

 convergent in front of the eyes, bluntly angular behind. 

 The clypeal process is short and broad (about one -third the 

 width of the head), with the angles feebly produced. The 

 pronotum is smooth, with the sides finely and feebly pmictured. 

 The outer edge is feebly curved to the obtuse lateral angle and 

 nearly straight from there to the base. The scutellnm is 



