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it accords with 2g. chelifer (var. max.), but is readily distinguished 
from this species by the strong and coarsely punctured lateral 
margins of the elytra. Under the circumstances I have united 
the Ceylon, Philippine and Bornean insects under the name of 
Kandiensis, Hope. 
/Aicus CHELIFER, M‘Leay, Hor. Ent. i. 113. 
A specimen of this insect is in the British Museum, received 
from Mr. M‘Leay, with the habitat of Australia on the label; I 
have always had considerable doubt as to the locality, no other 
recorded specimen from that continent having ever fallen under 
my notice; and I am now convinced that the habitat given is 
erroneous, for the insect has recently been received with its various 
developments by Count Mniszech and myself, both from Cambodia 
and the Malay Peninsula,* and proves upon comparison to be 
identical with Mr. M‘Leay’s species in the British Museum. 
The insect described by Mr. M‘Leay evidently represents the 
var. minor of the species, but specimens of the var. max. have 
been received from the localities above stated, possessing the 
tuberculated front to the head as noticed in Ag. acuminatus (in 
minor developed specimens this process totally disappears), the 
mandibles being also armed in their interior with a tooth, but 
placed invariably slightly above the centre and not near the base 
as in acuminatus; the sides of the elytra are also apparently 
smooth, whereas in the var. max. of acuminatus they are strongly 
punctate. Allusion has been already made (ante, p. 52) to the 
identity of this species with Agus cicatricosus 6 of Mr. Thom- 
son’s Collection (olim Dejean), and to the uncertainty, as men- 
tioned in Dejean’s Catalogue, of Java being its true locality. 
The insect in the Faune de I'Ie de Woodlark, p. 27, under the 
name of Agus chelifer?, M‘Leay, probably represents the var. 
minor either of 4g. insipidus, Thomson, or of platyodon, Parry, 
both species having been recently received rather abundantly 
from New Guinea and Celebes. 
fEcus LaBitis, Westw. (Pl. XII. fig. 5.) 
[Dorcus labilis, Westw.} 
JE. latus, depressus, niger, capite et pronoto subopacis, elytris 
glabris, striato-punctatis ; capite antice in medio emarginato, 
* Nigidius cornutus, M‘Leay, stated to be from Australia, has been received 
also from the now mentioned localities. Vide post, p. 63. 
t See note* ante, p. 17, 
