of Lucanoid Coleoptera. 65 
canaliculo punctato; elytris profunde striatis, striis punctatis, 
apice subproducto. 
Long. corp. (mandib. incl.) lin. 33. 
Hab. Malacca. Coll. Parry. 
The present briefly-described insect appears to be allied to 
F. Manillarum, Hope (angustatus, MS., Eschscholtz), and like that 
species varies considerably in sculpture according to development, 
rendering it difficult in a single description to characterize the 
different stages of its growth. 
F. scaritiformis appears, however, to differ in having the elytra 
somewhat shorter and more depressed, the sides of the prothorax 
more coarsely punctate, and the central longitudinal channel 
longer and deeper, its punctuation also being more defined. 
Since my first notice of this species, several specimens of it, in the 
various stages of development, have been received from the same 
locality. 
SINODENDRON AMERICANUM 64, 9, Palisot de Beauvois, Ins. Afric. 
et Amér. 192, tab. i. fig. 1, 2, 3; Melsheim. Cat. Coleop. 
Us. Se pe 57. 
S. piceum ; thorace marginato, glabro, antice truncato, 7-dentato, 
intermedio duobusque lateralibus prominulis; capitis cornu 
recurvo; elytris valde et subirregulariter punctato-striatis. 
Whether the description above quoted of an insect, stated to be 
from North America, can be considered as applying to a distinct 
species, admits perhaps of some doubt, no other specimen having 
been recorded from that country. Allusion is certainly made to 
it in Melsheimer’s Catalogue of the United States Coleoptera, but 
on Palisot’s authority alone. 
Dr. Leconte also, in his Classification of the United States — 
Coleoptera, mentions further that he is totally unacquainted with 
it. I feel, therefore, inclined to believe, from the description as 
well as from the great similarity of the figures given in Palisot’s 
work to our own European species, that Sinodendron cylindricum 
has been erroneously described as a distinct species under the 
name of §. Americanum; but not being acquainted with the type 
specimen, the present remarks can only be taken therefore as 
conjecture. 
Denprosirax Earrianus, White, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Zool. 
prix. pl. i: fig Seg, 18 S. 
The marked affinity shown in several respects by this species 
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