Lucanide. Ba 
elytra, itis subconvex ; the head is broad, nearly flat above, 
and subopaque, being seen, with a strong lens, to be en- 
tirely covered with very minute granules, placed closely 
together; the sides behind the eyes are slightly angulate, 
the canthus extends half the length of the eyes; the 
anterior lateral angles in front of the canthus being 
obliquely truncate, and slightly emarginate; the labrum 
is Short and transverse, with the fore-margin straight, and 
fringed with short fulvous hairs ; the mandibles are about 
the length of the head, sickle-shaped, and acute at the 
tips; the basal portion is concave, the outer angle (in 
front of the eyes) being dilated, in the middle they are 
armed with a strong nearly erect spine. The maxille 
are moderately long, the lobes clothed with long hairs, 
the inner lobe being simple; the mentum has the lateral 
anterior angles rounded, and the fore-margin nearly 
straight. The prothorax is transverse, with a slender 
raised margin all round its circumference; it has the sides 
nearly parallel, terminating behind in a small tooth, 
behind which the lateral angles are obliquely truncate, 
the anterior margin is rounded towards the head; the 
disc is convex and polished, with the outer angles finely 
punctured. The elytra are oblong, convex and polished, 
and, seen under a lens, covered with very minute punctures. 
The anterior tibiz are armed with seven small teeth 
on the outer edge, and the four hind tibiz have a small 
spine in the mfddle of each. 
Major Parry is inclined to believe that this insect is 
the male of D. rudis, next described. 
Dorcus RUDIS. 
(Plate VIII. fig. 3.) 
9. Totus niger, rude punctatus; elytris costatis in- 
terstitiis punctatissimis, capitis angulis anticis lateralibus 
obliquis, oculis septo dimidiatim incisis ; prothoracis an- 
gulis posticis oblique emarginatis ; elytris angulo hume- 
rali prominenti notatis. 
Long. corp. (cum mandibulis) lin. 10. 
Hab.—India vel Insulis Indicis? In Mus. D. Parry. 
Dorcus (Prosopocoilus ?) rudis, Westw., Trans. Ent. 
Soc., ser. 3, vol. 11. p. 35 (1864). 
