iEGUS. 179 



Variation of the male. As in A. kandiensis. h\ la.fge males 

 the mandibles are generally rather more slender and the tooth 

 at the middle of the imier edge is minute. 



3*. Lemjth (with mandibles), 14-30 mm. ; (without man- 

 dibles) 12-22 mm. : hreMlth,^\\ mm. 



$. Length, \'^-20 www. \ breadth, ~)-5-S-5 ram. 



Andaman Is. Xicobar Is. 



Type in the Britisli ^luseum. 



96. .ffigus parallelus. (Plate XXII, figs. 17-19.) 



Lnc'uiHS paralMus Hope & Westw.,* Cat. Luc. Col. 1845, p. 22. 

 Lucanius capitatus Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud, iv, 1847, p. 275, 



pi. 20, fig. 5. 

 Lucanus malabaricus Westw., op. cit. p. 276, pi. 20, fig. 7. 

 Dorcas parallelus Westw., op. cit. 1864, p. 56. 

 yEgus parallelus Boil., op. cit. 1913, p. 257 ; Arrow, op. cit. 



Ixxiii, 1935,p. 114. 



Black, the male shining above, the female dull, the body 

 rather broad and flat, the legs and lower surface sometimes 

 dark red, the front tibiae bearing rather closely-set, short shar]) 

 teeth and the middle and hind tibiae each bearing two shar]) 

 lateral spines. 



$. Oval, less flattened than the male, with tiic u])])er sui'faco 

 strongly and closely punctured, except the midtUe of the head. 

 The head is broad, smooth and opaque in tiie middle, roughly 

 punctured on each side, and upon a hollow area in front. The 

 canthus is rather prominent laterally. The mandibles are 

 strongly toothed at the inner edge, the tooth of the right 

 mandible simple, that of the left double. The pronotum is 

 strongly punctured, except in front of the middle, the jiunctures 

 dense and confluent at the sides. The lateral margins are gently 

 rounded, the front angles bluntly produced and the lihid angles 

 obtuse. The elytra each bear six dorsal striae and two lateral 

 ones and are closely and finely punctured, with the alternate 

 intervals raised. The sides are more densely and rugosely 

 punctured. The mentum is rugosely puncturcxl. The lower 

 surface of the body is evenly punctured. 



^. Broad, flat and rather shining. The head is very broad, 

 flat and opacjue, with a small tooth on each side behind the 

 mandibles, the sides more or less punctured behind, the front 

 margin gently excised, the sides of the head nearly straight, 

 with a slight angulation behind the eye. The pronotum is short 

 and broad, generally smooth, the entire margin surrounded, 

 except in the middle of the front, with a finely rugose band. 

 The sid^'S are straight, the front angles bluntl}' jiroduced and 

 the liind angles roimded. The scutelliim is finely punctured. 

 The elytra are smooth and sinning, with six deep dorsal striae 

 and two faint lateral ones, the sides very densely punctured 



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