DORCUS. 145 



have been foiiiul. In tliis pluiso the mandibles are lung, 

 separated at the base and not distinctly dilated, rather straight, 

 forked at the tip and provided with a tooth beyond the base 

 and another, a little bifurcated, before the tip. One of these 

 specimens is in the British Museum and the other in tlie Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



(^. Length (with mandibles), 2-4-38 mm. ; (without man- 

 dibles) 21-3 1 mm. : hreddth, 10-14 mm. 



$. Length, '2{)~2i) mm. ; br(:(i.dth,\)-ll mm. 



N.W. Province. Assam : Tura, Garo Hills, 1200-1500 ft. 

 {S. IF. A>.m?>, June, July) ; Naga Hills (IF. Z>o/(^ri/y) ; Maiiipur 

 (IF. Dohertij) \ Dilkoosha (Inglis); Sadiya (T. Bainltiiggi 

 Fletcher, May). Burma : Washaung, Myitkyina (R. Malaise, 

 July); Momeit (IF. Doherty). Texasserim. Andaman Is. 

 iSfAM. Tonkin. Cambodia. 



Type in the British IMuseum. 



h\ males from the Andaman Islands (var. andamaniis), but 

 not in the females, the black sutural stripe does not dilate in 

 fiont as in specimens from other regions and the lateral strijie 

 is rather narrow. 



72. Dorcus inquinatus. (Plate XI, figs. 6, 7.) 



Lucnnus inquinatus Westw.,* Cabinet of Orient. Ent. 1848, p. IS. 



pi. 8, fig. 4. 

 Metopodontiis biplagiatus var. indicus Gravely, Rec. Ind. Mils, xi, 



191.5, p. 420 (newsyn.). 



Black and shining a])ove and beneath, with a broad bright 

 oi-ange stripe upon each elytron near and parallel to the outer 

 edge, beginning close to the base and almost reaching the 

 suture. Body rather broad, compact and convex. The 

 prothorax and elytra short, the lateral margins of the former 

 gently refunded, the front angle very blunt, the hind angle 

 distinct but incons])icuous, and the base rounded at the sides 

 and straight in the middle. The prosternum rather flat behind 

 the coxae, not at all jjointed or elevated. The antennal club 

 is composed of three moderately long joints and the seventh 

 joint slightly produced. 



$. The head is coarsely and confluently punctured, with a 

 very sliglit lateral angulation immediately behind the eye, and 

 the mandibl(>s are rather narrow, with a small internal tooth. 

 The ])ronotiim is a little longer than that of the male and rather 

 more: strongly punctured. The elytra also are rather more 

 distinctly punctured than tho.se of the male, but not less 

 shining. The sides are very strongly and clo.sely punctured. 

 Tlie vietaKti'rnuin is entirely shining, with a few line jiunctures 

 at the sides, and the abdomen is smooth and shining, excejit 

 the last sternite, which is strongly punctured. The fiont tihia 

 lias a broad, four-pointed extremity and the middle and hind 



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