Mr. Westwood on some Lucanide and Prionide. 329 
The Rey. F. W. Hope has recently received some splendid species of 
my genus Temnoscheila. 
Since my observations upon the relationship between Lucanide and 
Prionide, and the additional note C. were written, I have examined two 
most interesting insects which tend more forcibly to convince me of their 
propriety. 
The first, (intended to be described in the next volume of the Trans- 
actions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society,* is the most magnificent 
of Lucanidous insects, and in the lateral spines of its thorax, and the 
whorl of hairs ornamenting the tip of the extremely long basal jot of 
the antenne, an approach is made to the Capricornes. 
The second,t belonging to J. G. Children, Esq., and tie most splendid 
of Prionideous Insects, is remarkable for the length of its palpi which 
instead of being short and blunt, like those of the Prionide generally, are 
as long’ as those of a Lucanus ; the last joint of the maxillary palpi is 
however flattened at the tip, which is obliquely rounded and papillose. 
I have also had an opportunity of more minutely examining a @ 
specimen of the insect mentioned in note C. p. 237, also belonging to 
J. G. Children, Esq. Its trophi resemble those of some of the female 
Lucanide, such as Pholidotus, Ryssonotus, &c. as well those of 
Parandra, Zoological Journal, Tab. Supp. 47, fig. 7 A. The eyes are 
reniform as in the Prionide, instead of being divided into four distinct 
eyes, two above and two beneath, as in Lucanus. The Tarsi are not 
exactly cylindric, being slightly compressed and the under surface very 
finely cushioned or rather clothed with fine short bristles. Between the 
claws there isa very small coriaceous appendage, but without the additional 
minute pair of claws of the Lucanide. 
* Under the name of Chiasognathus Grantii, Steph., MSS. 
+ Psalidognathus Friendii,G. R. Gray. 
{ Trictenotoma Childreni, G, R. Gray. 
The Grove, Hammersmith, 
25th March, 1831. 
