116 LUCANID^. 



and shortly pointed behind ; the metasternum bears scattered 

 punctures and is dull at the sides and the abdomen is very 

 smooth, except the terminal segment, which bears large, 

 fairly closely and evenly distributed punctures. The tibiai 

 are slender, the front ones sliglitly curved, with the outer 

 edge very minutely toothed and the extremity ])roduced into 

 a palmate lobe. The middle and hind tibi* are without lateral 

 spines and all the tarsi are rather short. 



cJ. Unknown. 



Length, 21 mm. ; breadth, 9 mm. 



Assam : Patkai Hills {W. Doherty). 



Type in the Oberthur collection. The British Museum 

 possesses several specimens from the Frj^ collection, taken by 

 Doherty at the same time as the type. 



49. Dorcus curvipes. (Plate VI, fig. 1.) 



Lucanus curvipes Hope & Westw.,* Cat. Luc. Col. 1845, p. 25. 

 Cladognathvs curvipes Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1864, p. 35. 



Black, the female shining, the male dull above, very small, 

 convex, rather compact, with slender but not long legs. The 

 head is small, with rather large and prominent eyes, the canthus 

 extending to the middle, the pronotum convex, a little 

 wider in front than at the base with the lateral edges very 

 minutely serrate, with an acute spine beyond the middle, 

 feebly curved from there to the front angles, which are rounded, 

 and straight to the hind angles, which are obtuse but distinct. 

 The elytra short, entirely punctured, closely at the sides, 

 with the shoulders sharply pointed. The prosternum a little 

 compressed, bluntly pointed but not produced behind. The 

 metasternum and abdomen smooth and shining, the former 

 with scattered punctures. The middle and hind tibijp have 

 each an extremely minute lateral spine. 



9. Shining black, oval. The head is very small, a little 

 contracted behind the eyes, densely and rugosely ])imctured. 

 The mandibles are narrow and straight, with very sharp 

 curved tijjs and a strong tooth near the middle of the inner 

 edge. The pronotuni is coarsely and densely pimctured at 

 the sides and fairly strongly and closely in tlie middle. The 

 elytra are rather less strongly punctured than the })ronotum, 

 closely upon the outer half and not very (closely upon the inner 

 half. The legs are not much shorter than those of the male, the 

 front tibiae slender and curving outwards, with tlie extremity 

 broad and four-lobed. 



c^. The head is dull, rather finely and evenly punctured, a 

 little de])ressed in the middle and slightly dilated on each side 

 behind the eye. The mandibles are short and thick, rounded 

 externally, with the tij)s inclined uj)wards and hollowed 

 internally, with the lower edge serrate, The pronotiitH is 



