DORCirs. 1 33 



{K. Govindaraj, April) ; Pirmaid, Travancore, 3000 ft. (Mrs. 

 R. Iniray). 



Type in tfu; British Museum. 



I liavo seen only two males and one fciinale of this s[)e(!ies. 

 It is possible that the mandibles of the male reach a higher 

 degree of development than that described above. 



02. Dorcus speclosus. (Plate XI, figs. 4, 5.) 



Metopodontus apecioaus Boil.,* Le Naturaliste, 1904, p. 278. 



Black or dark blackish-brown, with the sides of the elytra 

 (very broadly in the male, more narrowly in the female) 

 bright yellow, exce])t the extreme edges, wliieh are black, 

 an (ival yellow spot on each side of the metasternum in both 

 sexes and, in the male, the sides of the pronotum more or less 

 I)ale. The eyes rather prominent, the pronotum short, 

 its sides feebly curved to far beyond the middle and then 

 strongly rounded, without distinct lateral or basal angle. 

 The prosternum strongly compressed and acutely produced 

 behind. The club-joints of the antemia fairly long and the 

 seventh joint ])r(jduced into a long slender process. The 

 outer edge of the front tibia very finely serrate and almost 

 without larger teeth. 



$. Black, very glossy above, each elytron with a bright 

 yellow lateral band not quite reaching the shoulder in front 

 or the suture behind. The shape is rather narrowly oval. 

 The head is rugosely punctured, the mandibles small and 

 narroM'. The pronolutu and elytra are very shining, sparingly 

 punctured dorsally and clo.sely at the sides. The shoulders 

 are V(^ry sharj). The front fihia (>nds in four short lobes and 

 the middle and hind tibite have each a very small lateral 

 spine. 



(J. Black, not very glossy, the head and pronotum partly 

 or entirely dark brown, the sides of the pronotum more or 

 less yellow or red and the elytra bright yellow, with the extreme 

 outer margins and a narrow sutural triangle, extending from 

 the middle of the base of each elytron to the extremity of the 

 suture, black. The head and pronotum are densely granular 

 and oj)aque, the former with the front n\argin rather strongly 

 excised, the front angles blunt, tlie cheeks a little rounded 

 behind tiie eyes. The clypeal process is narrow, moderately 

 long and tongue-sliaped. The elytra are finely and closely 

 j)unctured, rather shining in the anterior sutural region and 

 coriaceous and dull at the sides and apices. The front tihia 

 is rather feebly forked at the extremity, the middle tibia has 

 a minute lateral spine and the hind tibia has none. 



Variation of the male. In a small specimen the liead is a 

 little convex behind, the mandibles are about as long as the 



