410 Records of the Indian Museum. (Vor. XI 
The above diagnoses are necessarily provisional, being based 
on Indian species only ; but I have found it convenient to adopt 
them in the following catalogue. Apart trom this I have followed 
the classification, and with one or two exceptions the synonymy, 
adopted in Van Roon’s catalogue (/oc. cit., above, p. 407, footnote), 
where references to literature will be found. As, however, many 
references are incorrectly given there, the following corrections of 
the inaccuracies I have noticed will facilitate use. 
Lucanus cantori. Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. London IV, 1845- 
7, p. 73; Hope, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XII, 1843, p. 363. 
Odontolabis burmeisteri. Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. London 
III, 1841-3, p. 279, pl. xiii, fig. 3. 
Metopodontus maclellandi. Hope, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 
XII, 1843, p. 364; Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. London IV, 1845-7, 
rrmeis podeaie occipitalis = asteriscus. Add—Westwood, 
Cab.Or. Eni., pl.x;tige4: 
Metopodontus wentzel-heckmannae,. Locality—N. Nyassa- 
land, not Annam. 
Prosopocoelus buddha. Hope, Tvans. Linn. Soc. London 
XIX, 1843, p. 107; Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3) II, 1864, pl. 
Kil, fie as Cr: 
Prosopocoelus bulbosus. Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 
XVIII, 1841;>-p: 580; pl: xljme: 2: 
Aegus parallelus. Locality—Khasi Hills, not Prince of 
Wales Island. ‘The latter locality is recorded for A. capitatus (¢) 
=A. sinister (2), see Westwood, p. 56 of Parry’s Catalogue in 
Trans. Ent. Soc. London (3) II, 1864-6. 
Nigidius elongatus, Boileau, Natuvaliste XXIV, 1902, 
p. 205. 
- 
Nigidius vagatus. I have failed to trace this species at all. 
Boileau’s ‘‘ Note sur Lucanides conservés dans les collections 
de l’ Université d’Oxford et du British Museum’’ (Tvans. Ent. Sec. 
London, 1913, pp. 213-272, pl. ix) is an important paper pub- 
lished since the catalogue. 
When on leave in Europe in 1913, I took the opportunity of 
checking my identifications by comparison of a selection of our — 
specimens with those in the British Museum and the Deutsches 
Entomologisches Museum. My thanks are due to Mr. Arrow and 
Dr. Horn for the facilities granted me. I have also to thank 
Mr. Arrow for information with regard to a number of specimens 
which I had not time to examine fully in London myself, and 
H. E. Lord Carmichael, Mr. E. E. Green, Mr. R. S. Lister, Mr. 
E. A. D’Abreu, the Colombo Museum, the Bombay Natural 
History Society, and the Imperial Agricultural and Forest Research 
Institutes for the loan of specimens, a number of which have been 
added to the Indian Museum collection. 
