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pointed process beneath, wliich bears a tuft of short yellow 

 hairs. Tlio legs are very slender, the front til)ia rather 

 feebly forked at the extremity, tlie middle tibia bearing an 

 extremely minute lateral spine and the hind tibia without 

 spine but with a small terminal process bearing internally a 

 tuft of short yellow hairs. 



Variation of the male. The four cephalic tubercles are absent 

 in small specimens and the mandibles are straight to beyond 

 the middle and tiien gently curved, the inner edge serrate 

 basally, with two small obhquely placed teeth before the tip. 

 A medium-sized niale shows only a rather blunt tooth a 

 little before the base and two prominent oblique teeth bef(jr(^ 

 the tip. Well-developed specimens have very long mandibles, 

 the basal tooth is sharp and situated at about a third of the 

 length from the base and the tip is very slender and sharp. 



rj. Lengr^/t (with mandibles), 23-39 mm. ; (without mandibles) 

 19-23 mm. : breadth, 8-10 mm. 



$. Length, 18-5 mm. ; breadth, 7-5 mm. 



Bombay : Yellapur, N. Kanara {T. R. D. Bell, June). 

 Assam: Bhanugach R., Sylliet (Sept.). Burma: Karen 

 Hills, 2700-3300 ft. (L. Fea, Dec.) ; Panchai Res., Namtu 

 (June). 



Type in the Hope Dept., Oxford University Museum. 



The tufts of yellow hair at the extremities of the abdomen 

 and hind tibia> seem to be distinctive of the males of this 

 species alone. 



56. Dorcus macclellandi. (Plate X, figs. 6, 7.) 



Lucanua McClellandi Hope,* Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1842, p. 83 ; 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, 184."), p. 74. 

 Metopodontus {Hoplitocranum) macclellandi Boil., Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Lond. 1913, p. 225. 

 Cladognathu/i quadrinodosus Parry,* Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1863, 



p. 109 ; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1864, p. 22, pi. 8, fig. 4. 



Deep red or chocolate, witli the antenna?, tarsi, knees, the 

 front of the head and the margins of the thorax and elytra 

 darker, the tarsi with conspicuous pads of bright yellow hair 

 The male entirely opaque above, the female shining except 

 at the sides, with a broad dark sutural stripe. The prosternum 

 very short and rounded behind. 



$. Rather bright chestnut-red, with the scutellum and a 

 broad sutural stripe upon the elytra black and shining. The 

 head is rugose in front and coarsely punctured behind, with 

 a small smooth median posterior space. The pronotum is 

 shining but well punctured, the punctures moderately fine 

 in the middle, becoming progressively stronger to the sides, 

 where they are very coarse and close. The lateral edges are 

 finely serrate and gently rounded from the front angles, which 

 are fairly siiar[), to tlie acute lateral angles and feebly concave 



