182 LUCANiD^a!;. 



The type .specimen (labelkcl <is from JJiirjeeling) is consider- 

 ably larger than the male specimens taken by Doherty, and the 

 mandibular tooth, as in similar largo s])ecimens of .4. parallelus, 

 is Cjuite tlifferently placed. The elytra are less glo.s.sy. The 

 fcpecies is distinguished from ,-1. jHiralldus by the ab.sence of 

 frontal teeth on the head of the male and the ck^ep excision 

 of its anterior margin. The marginal grooves at the front of 

 the pronotum are also sliorter. The female is easily distin- 

 guished from that of .4. parallelus by the coarsely punctured 

 median expression of the pronotum, the more equal and 

 much less punctured dor.«al intervals of the elytra and the 

 dift'erently sha])od mandibles. 



1)8. .ffigus eschscholtzi. (Plate XXII I, fig. I.) 



Lucanus csdischoltzii Hope & Westw.,* Cat. Luc. Col. 1845, p. 22. 

 .Kgus eschscholtzi Boil., Trans. Ent. Sec. Lond. 1913, p. 258. 



Black, \\\\\\ the elytra, and in small si)ecimens the ])ronotum 

 also, shining, the body depressed, the legs short and rather 

 stout. 



(^. The head is dull and sooty, broad and Hat, not hollowed in 

 front, with the front margin very gently excised, minutely 

 toothed on each side, the eyes very small, the sides of tlic head 

 nearly straight in front, feebly and bluntly prominent l)ehind 

 the eye. Tht^ pronotion is Hat, the sitk^s straight and ])arallel 

 almost to the base, where they are sti'ongly roundecl. The 

 scxtdluNi bears a few punctures. The di/ira are short but a 

 little produced at the apex and l)ear six dee]) dorsal .stri;e. The 

 base, sides and apices are strongly and densely punctured, the 

 outer edges gently curved and narrowly fiatteneel. The 

 mentum and suhmentum are entirely opacjue. The sides e)f the 

 meta sternum are strongly punctureel and the abdomen is 

 scantily ])unctm"eel, witli tlie- exci>])tion of the last sternite, 

 which is close'ly ])unctured. 



$. Unknown. 



Variation of the meile. Small sjx'cimens are rather narrow, 

 with the up])er surfae-e shining, except the heael, the pronotum 

 well ])unctured, very closely at the sieles, the front angles 

 bluntly i)roduc((l, the dorsal intervals of the elytra convex 

 and finely but elistinctly jiunctureel. The n\andibles are evenly 

 curveel, broael at the base, where they are a little ])rodueed 

 internally, and bear a second tooth above anel a little in advance 

 of tlic basal one. A lai'ge specimen (the tyi)e) is very broael 

 and Hat, with the he^ul anel pronotiun entire4y o])ae(ue, 

 ])uncture'd only at the sides, the- elor.sal intervals of tlie elytra 

 flat anel, exe'e'])t the sutural one, almost unpunctui'e'd. The 

 upper tooth e)f the mandible is ])lace"(l in the middle of its 

 le^ngth anel is elirected forward. 



