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at the extremity. Oval in sliape and not very broad. The 

 head is finely granular and opaque, except in front, where it is 

 coarsely rugose. The pronotum is finely and unevenly punctured 

 ill the middle and densely granular and opaque at tiie sides. 

 The lateral edges are gently rounded, the lateral angle is moder- 

 ately sharp and the hhid angle very acute. The base is almost 

 straight. The elytra are very finely and lightly punctured, 

 except at the sides, whicli are opaque. The prosternal process 

 is horizontal and not distinctly produced. Tlie lateral teeth 

 of the front tibia are rather feeble. 



(^. The black sutural stripe of the elytra is rather narrow, 

 almost parallel-sided, but extends along the front margin 

 and is slightly narrowed at the extremity. The head is 

 elongate, flat, densely granular and opaque, with the sides 

 angularly dilated well behind the eyes. The pronotum 

 also is densely granular and opaque. The lateral angle is 

 acutely produced, the margins deeply concave beliind and the 

 hind angles very acute. The elytra are dull, except in the 

 anterior dorsal region, wliich is slightly shining and feebly 

 punctured. The prosternal process is produced slightly dowTi- 

 wards. The front tibia is slender and has a single sharp lateral 

 spine in addition to the terminal fork. 



$. Length (with mandibles), 38 mm. ; (without mandibles) 

 32 mm. : breadth, 15 mm. 



$. Length, 29-33 mm. ; breadth, 14-15 mm. 



S. India : Mundakayam, Travancore {T. V. Lsaac, April) ; 

 Tinnevelly, Madras (.4. Hamid Khan, ]\Iarch) ; N. Kanara 

 (H. E. Andretves). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species has hitherto been known from a female specimen 

 alone. I have seen only a single male of small size, in which 

 the mandibles are shorter than the head. The latter resembles 

 that of small sjiecimens of C. carinatus. Large males will no 

 doubt be found to have slender mandibles. 



102. Calcodes elegans. (Plate XVIII, fig. 6.) 



Odontolabis elegans Moll.,* Insektenborse, xviii, 1901, p. 36.3 : 

 Deutsche Ent. Zeit.s. 1903, p. 347 ; Insektenborse, xxiii, 

 1906, p. 31 ; Zang, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1905, p. 212. 



Black, with the elytra bright yellow, except a narrow black 

 sutural line, gradually dilated anteriorly in the female but not 

 in the male. The epipleura? of the ehiira also yellow in both 

 sexes, except at the edges. Rather short and broad, with the 

 sides of the elytra conspicuously flattened anteriorly. The 

 upper surface opaque but the elytra moderately shining. 



$. The black sutural border is very narrow in the posterior 

 part of the el^v^tra, but gradually dilates to the base, forming a 



