58 Major F. J. Sidney Parry on 



Neolucanus lama, Oliv. 



Having on a former occasion (Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, 

 i. 43) expressed an opinion as to the identity of Olivier's 

 insect with that described by Mr. Hope, in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xix. 105, under the name of Odontolahis Baladeva, 

 and of which 0. ancjidatus, subsequently described by 

 the same author, in his Catalogue of the Lucanidce, must 

 be considered as the var. niin., I cannot concur ^vith 

 Gemminger and von Harold in retaining the two insects 

 as specifically distinct; and upon again examining 

 Olivier's description and figure, I feel convinced that 

 the short curved form of the mandibles exhibited in pi. iii. 

 fig. 8, renders it impossible to refer this figure to the 

 male, in which sex the mandibles are described by Mr. 

 Hope as being porrect and arcuate. I therefore suppress 

 Hope's name in favour of Olivier's. 



Cladognathus Batesi. 



In Gemminger and Von Harold's '' Catalogus " this 

 species, from North India, has been recorded as having 

 been or as being about to be described by myself, whereas 

 it has been described by Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, who has 

 created a new genus for it, and has recorded the insect as 

 A'uJacostethns Archeri (Trans. Ent. Soc. 18G9, p. 14) . With 

 reference to the "prophetic utterances" note of our ex- 

 cellent Secretary (?. c), the fault cannot bo attributed to 

 Gemminger and Von Harold. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, 

 on showing me this interesting new species, suggested 

 that I should describe it in my present publication, (which 

 I then hoped to have ready in 1869), and it was accord- 

 ingly included in the list of new species which I sent to 

 the Baron von Harold, under the name of Cladognathus 

 Batesi. It was afterwards suggested that the species 

 might appropriately be named in honour of Mr. Archer, 

 by whom it was presented to the British Museum ; but 

 imfortunatoly the notice of this alteration was too late for 

 the " Catalogus Coleopterorum." 



Cladognathus dentifer. 

 Deyr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1865, p. 29, pi. i. fig. 5. 



This now East Indian species, from the collection of 

 Count Muiszech, is most probably a var. minor, and the 



