COLEOPTERA. — LUCANID^. 



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The Priocera Dumeril, or the family Lucanid^e * Leach, cor- 

 responding with the Linnaean genus Lucanus, and the Thalero- 

 phagous Recticera of MacLeay, is distinguishetl by having the 

 antennce strongly elbowed {fig. 18. 5.), generally 10-jointed, and 



Fig. 18. 





terminated with a pectinated, fissile, or subserrated club, and by the 

 mandibles being very large and exserted, especially in the males. The 



* BiBLioGR. References to the Lucanid^. 



MacLeay, in Horae Ent. pt. 1. 



Dahnan. Ephem. Entomol. 1824. 



Griffith. An. K. Insects. 



Perty. Delect. An. Art. Bz. and Coleopt. Ind. Orient. 



Hope. Coleopterist's Manual, 1837. — Ditto, in Entom. Mag. No. 24. — Ditto in 



Trans. Soc. Zool. Lond. vol. i. 

 Westwood, in Ann. Scienc. Nat. 2d series, vol. 1. pi. 7. Mag. Nat. Hist. No. 2C. 



Zool. Journ. No. 18, 19. Entomol. Mag. No. 23. 

 Schreibers, in Trans. Soc. Linn. vol. vi. 



Brock. Correspondence Entomologique. Muliiausen. 1823 (1 pi.). 

 Kirby, in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xii. 

 Stephens, in Trans. Soc. Linn. Cambr. vol. iv. 

 Gu£rin. Icon. R. An. Ins. pi. 27. 

 Panzer. Symbola- Entomologicas, Erlang. 1793. 

 Thunberg, in Mem. Acad. Mosc. vol. i. (Monogr. on Lucanus.) 

 Swederus, in Act. Holm. 1787. 

 Bonsdorff, in ditto, 1785. 

 Weber. Obs. Ent. 



Schonherr. Syn. Ins. vol. iii. Append. 

 Kkchlin. Entom. Briefe. Mulhaus. 1833. (on varieties of Lucani, vide Bull. Sc. 



Nat. March and Sept. 1824.) 



