of Lucanoid Coleoptera. 7 
Lamprima sumptuosa ¢, Hope, Cat. p. 28. 
L. supra tota flamimeo-rufescens, punctata; mandibulis valde 
curvatis, apice nigris, elevatis et auriculatis ; sterni processu 
apice nigro et suboblique truncato; elytris irregulariter sub- 
striolatis; tibiis anticis extus 6 vel 7-spinosis; calcare 
gracili, cultriformi; pedibus 4 posticis gracilibus, tibiis in 
medio bidentatis ; corpore infra cupreo et ceneo, nitidissimo. 
Long. corp. (mandib. inclus.) lin. 9. 
Hab. Swan River. 
A good species belonging to the second section of Zamprima. 
A single specimen only in the Hopeian collection at Oxford. 
Gen. Cotroruon, Westw. Ann. Sc. Nat. i., ser. 2, p. 113. 
The general form of the species of this genus exhibits such a 
remarkable difference from the insects pertaining to the family 
Dorcide, in which it has been hitherto located, that after a careful 
comparison with various genera, more especially with Lamprima 
and Streptocerus (to which the only two species of the genus 
Colophon, viz. C. Westwoodii and C. Thunbergii, in the form of 
the prothorax and of the head as well as in the structure of the 
mandibles, bear, I think, a somewhat striking resemblance), I 
have been induced to place it in the same family, Chiasognathide, 
of which it may be regarded as the African representative. I 
place it in juxtaposition with Streptocerus, which it further 
resembles in possessing four joints to the clava of the antenne, 
and thus affords a connecting link with the Lucanide. 
Mesoropus Taranpus 2. (PI. V. fig. 4.) 
Lucanus Turandus $, Swed. in Act. Holm. 1787, iii. 186, 
tab. vill. fig. 2. 
M. ebenina nigra, nitidissima; capite subrugoso-punctato, an- 
tice excavato, bispinoso, postice levi, politissimo ; mandibulis 
brevibus, trigonis, intus bidentatis ; elytris subovalibus; tibiis 
extus ut in maribus 3-dentatis. 
Long. corp. (mandib. incl.) unc. 1, lin. 6. 
Hab. Afric. Occ. 
The female, now for the first time figured, has hitherto been of 
extreme rarity. The only specimens of that sex with which I am 
acquainted are in the cabinets of the late Rev. F. W. Hope, 
Count Mniszech and my own. 
