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gently rounded at the base and apex and nearly straight 

 between them, with a strong, shar]), obJi{|ne internal tooth 

 before the middle, a slightly irregular ridge just l)efore this 

 and another short shar]) tooth a little before tlie tip. 



(J. Length (with mandil)les). 1'.] mm. ; (without mandibles) 

 51 mm. : breadth, 24 mm. 



$. Length, 44 mm. ; breadth, IS mm. 



Nepal. 



Type in the Paris Mu.se^iin. 



Only the imi(|ue tyi)e-s])eeimen of this s]ieeies a])pears to 

 have been known hitherto. 'I'he reeorded habitat is '" Hyma- 

 laya " but a single male in the British Museum is from Nejjal. 

 A single femah' specimen (deseribed above) fi'om N. India, 

 bearing the collector's name, E. J. dlarwood, almost certainly 

 belongs to the species. 



84. Dorcus nepalensis. (Plate XIII, figs. 1-3.) 



Lucanifi nepalensiti Hope,'* Gray's Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 22. 

 Hemisodorcus nepalensis Thorns., Ann. Hoc. Ent. Fr. 1862, p. 421 ; 



Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1864, p. 86 ; Boil., op. cit. 1913, 



p. 247. 

 Lucanus rajflesi Hope,* Trans. Linn. Soc. Lojid. xviii, 1842, p. 588. 

 $. Lucamis sitnilis Hope,* Gray's Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 22. 



Lucanus parryi Hope,* Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1843, p. 94 ; Hopo 



& Westw., Cat. Luc. Col. 1845, p. 20. 



Jet-black, extremely smooth and shining above and beneath, 

 with the exception of the head, the sides of the pronotum and, 

 in the female, the sides of the elytra. The soles of the tarsi 

 closely clothed with golden hairs and the sides of the meta- 

 sterninn bearing a very scanty and inconspicuous clothing of 

 minute yellow setae. Rather long and narrow, moderately 

 convex, with the legs rather long. The ocular canthus sharply 

 angular in front of the eye. The sides of the pronotum micro- 

 scopically coriaceous and sooty, the scutellum bearing a few 

 fine ])unctures and the elytra glossy, very minutely and lightly 

 pmictm-ed. The prosternum broad and rounded behind. The 

 sides of the metastcrnum fairly closely punctured and the 

 abdomen very smooth. 



$. The head is coarsel>' i-ugose, except in front, and bears a 

 single rather strong tubercle in the middle. The canthus is a 

 little prominent laterally in front of the eye. The elypeal 

 ])rocess is small and bluntly bilobed. The mandibles are placed 

 rather far apart at the base ; they are narrower than usual and 

 almost straight externally. There is a strong tooth on the 

 upper surface just beyond the base, directed obliquely forward 

 and a minute one at the inner edge before the tij). The pro- 

 nntum is very glossy in the middle, but becomes entirely o))aque 

 at the sides. The lateral margin is gently curved to the latei'al 

 angle, which is not very sharp. The eltjtra are very finely and 



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