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In my former publication this appears to have escaped 

 my notice^ as I did not allude to it. Dr. Burmeister's 

 description of L. Micardi so readily answers to the above, 

 that it appeared to me evident that the two were iden- 

 tical; and having recently had the opportunity of 

 examining the type specimen of nigricolUs in the Hopeian 

 Museum at Oxford, this opinion has been fully con- 

 firmed. 



Streptocerus eustictus. 



Philippi, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 316. 



I am acquainted by description only with this second 

 species of the genus Streptocerus. In Count Mniszech's 

 collection, there exists a species under the name of 8. 

 nitidipennis, which probably may prove identical with 

 the above. 



Lucanus curtulus. 

 Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1845, p. 60. 



The difficulty of recognizing this as a distinct species 

 appears to be considerable, seeing the diversity of 

 opinion expressed by several entomologists, in reference 

 to it and other allied insects, namely, L. oricntalis, 

 Kraatz, L. ihcrieus, Motsch., and L. tetraodon, Thunb. 



Kraatz, in his elaborate paper on the European species 

 oi Lucanidce (Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1860), establishes the new 

 species L. orientalis, including therewith L. ibericus ?, 

 and L. curtidus?. Reiche places L. iherictis with L. 

 tetraodon; and Burmeister locates both ibericus and 

 curtidus with L. Barharossa, Fab. (This most certainly 

 appears to be erroneous) . Gemminger and Yon Harold 

 have added considerably to the confusion by having first 

 recognized L. curtidus as distinct, and then suppressed 

 L. orientalis as identical with L. ibericus. But for the 

 present, I do not deem it advisable to alter the arrange- 

 ment made in my former Catalogue. 



Lucanus turcicus, Sturm. 



Gemminger and Von Harold give this as a synonym 

 of L. cervu-s, agreeing in this respect with Kraatz (Stett. 



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