64 Major Parry’s Catalogue 
This species is readily distinguished by its short, robust and 
convex form, and by the absence of the minute tubercle in the 
centre of the anterior margin of the prothorax which characterizes 
most of the allied species. ‘The number of external spines on the 
tibiae appears to be most variable in this genus; no instance, 
however, being known to me in which they are entirely wanting. 
PENICHROLUCANUS coPpRICEPHALUS, H. Deyrolle, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. Ser. iv. vol. 3, p. 485; pl. ix. fig. 11, and details. 
The aberrant characters exhibited in this singular insect from 
Malacca (vid. ]. ¢.), recently described from a unique specimen 
in Count Mniszech’s Collection, preclude the possibility of assign- 
ing, with any degree of certainty, its true position in the Luca- 
noidea. It is even, I believe, still a matter of doubt among many 
Entomolegists whether the species in question ought to be referred 
at all to this division of the Coleoptera. I have nevertheless placed 
it temporarily near Figulus, bearing, as it does, some similarity to 
the species of that genus, and equally, perhaps, also to the genera 
Nigidius and Agnus, the latter appearing to form the passage 
between Nigidius and Figulus. 
FicuLus vuLNERATuS, Thomson, Cat. p. 433. 
The type specimen of the above-named species from Mada- 
gascar has obligingly been communicated to me for examination 
by Mr. Thomson. It appears to me to be specifically identical 
with F. anthracinus, Klug (vid. Ins. v. Madagase. 85, n. 116), 
differing only in the confused position of the punctures forming 
in the normal state the dorsal striz by which the elytra are 
characterized. Mr. Thomson (p. 402) appears to be of the same 
opinion with Dr. Burmeister as to this species being synonymous 
with Fig. sublevis of Palissot de Beauvois, from Africa, and 
noticed by Professor Westwood, as a distinct species, in the Ent. 
Mag. v. 262, sp. 3. If the several specimens received from 
Senegal, Guinea and Bassan are identical with Palissot’s insect, it 
is very evident, upon comparison with the Madagascar species, 
that the two are distinct. 
Ficuius scaritirormis ¢, Parry (var. minor). 
F, scaritiformis, Parry, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1862, p. 113. 
F. parvulus, rufo-piceus; capite grosse punctato ; prothorace 
levigato, lateribus vage et rude punctato, medio canaliculato, 
