412 Records of the Indian Museum. (Vox. XI, 
the clypeus is transversely linear (text-fig. rC), and the dorsal 
tooth of the mandibles is obsolete. 
Lucanus lunifer, Hope. 
(Text-figure 1B.) 
W. Himalayas: Simla (7); Dehra Dun* (o@); Mussoorie* 
(7 9); Naini Tal(o 9). 
Assam: Khasi Hills (o). 
In the specimen from the Khasi Hills the upper fork of the 
mandibles is distally enlarged and truncate ; in the rest it is 
normal as in the type specimen (see Boileau, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lon- 
aon, I0T3, p. 218). 
The female closely resembles that of the preceding species, 
but the upper surface of the head is more convex ; the clypeus (text- 
fig.1B), whose anterior margin is strongly angular instead of almost 
straight, extends much further forward; and there is a small but 
distinct tooth on the dorsal surface on the mandibles. The asso- 
ciation of this form of female with the male of the present species 
rests on its uniformly black legs, which separate it from the pre- 
ceding species, and on its large size and apparent greater abundance 
in the Western than in the Eastern Himalayas, which separate it 
from the three following species. 
Lucanus mearsi, Hope. 
(Text-figures 1A, D and F.) 
W. Himalayas: Mussoorie (¢ @ ). 
E. Himalayas: Darjeeling District—Darjeeling, 7000 ft. (¢ 
2); Kurseong, 5000 ft. (7 @). 
To one specimen is attached the label ‘‘ Bores into dead sap 
wood of Kharani (Symplocas sp.); found at elevation 5000 to 
6000 ft. in Sikkim—G. Rogers.” 
Females of this and of the two following species differ from 
those of the two preceding species in their smaller average size, and 
in the shape of the clypeus (text-fig. tA) which, though produced in 
front as in L. lunifer, is always truncate or broadly rounded, 
instead of strongly angular, in the middle line. Females of the 
present species may be distinguished from those of the two follow- 
ing by the shape of their anterior tibiae, whose two distal marginal 
teeth are not specially elongated and are not fused at the base 
(text-fig. rF). They are usually of a deep olivaceous colour rather 
than jet black, and fresh specimens are more or less completely 
covered with fine golden pile—characters which are shared by the 
male sex. 
Lucanus smithi, Parry. 
(Text-figure IE.) 
_ _ Van Roon gives smithi, Parry, as a synonym of villosus, Hope, 
in his catalogue. Boileau, however, states (Trans. Ent. Soc. London 
