of Lucanoid Coleoptera. 63 
Lissotes. This insect appears to represent, on the southern coast 
of Africa, those species from S. America and N. Holland belong- 
ing to the genera above alluded to. 
Lissores Menatcas, Westw. 
This species appears to form the connecting link, through the 
genus Nigidius, between the Dorcide and Figulide. 
L. Honittanus, Westw., exhibits a marked difference from 
I. Menalcas in the character of the prothorax; but its similarity 
to that species in other respects, and its close affinity in appear- 
ance to Nigidius, have induced me to locate it for the present at 
the end of the genus Lissotes, immediately preceding the Figulide. 
Nicipius cornutus 6, 9, M‘Leay, Hor. Ent. i. p. 109. 
N. cornutus, ater, nitidus ; mandibulis tridentatis ; clypeo punc- 
tato, antice mucronato; elytris inter strias elevatis, triplici 
punctorum impressorum ordine instructis, apicibus punctatis ; 
tibiis anticis 7-dentatis. 
é mandibularum margine supero et externo in ramum cor- 
nutum producto, 
@ mandibulis brevioribus, haud cornu supero instructis. 
A second description of this species will be found in the Ento- 
mological Magazine, vol. v. p. 264, by Prof. Westwood, taken from 
a specimen in the British Museum, stated to have been received 
from Mr. M‘Leay, and from Australia. Having long doubted 
the accuracy of this habitat, no specimens of it being contained 
in the numerous collections of Australian Coleoptera which have 
reached this country, I have only recently ascertained the true 
habitat of the species in question, specimens in the collections of 
W. W. Saunders, Esq., and of Count Mniszech, from Cambodia 
and Malacca, proving, upon comparison, to be identical with that 
in the British Museum. 
Nicipivs ozesus 6, Parry. 
N. convexus, brevis, nigerrimus, nitidus; capite utrinque infra 
oculos auriculato; mandibulis subrecurvis, intus ad_ basin 
processu bifido productis, extus pone medium dente parvo 
obtuso armatis; prothorace crebre grosseque punctato, in 
medio obsolete late longitudinaliter caniculato, angulis anticis 
simplicibus ; elytris brevibus, convexis, rugoso-punctatis, for- 
titer sulcatis, interstitiis levibus. 
Hab. Penang, Malacca, 
Long. corp. (mandib, incl.) lin. 7}. 
