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of the eyes; the labrum is conical, and advanced as far as 
inner produced base of the mandibles, which are. sickle- 
shaped, dilated at the apex into a somewhat spoon-shaped 
extremity, the right mandible terminating in two obtuse 
unequal teeth, whilst the left mandible is obliquely trun- 
cate at the tip, with two or three slight incisions, forming 
a broad obtuse compound tvoth. The prothorax in the 
male is transverse, convex, smooth, with moderately 
large round punctures, which are almost obsolete towards 
the anterior margin; the lateral margins are slightly 
crenated and oblique, but nearly straight; the anterior 
angle not acute, and the posterior angles rounded off. 
The elytra are short, subovate, convex, covered with 
small oval punctures, with two or three very slightly 
marked longitudinal carinze on each, one towards the 
suture being the most distinct. 
The anterior tibiz are 5-dentate on the outer edge, 
the two teeth at the apex being the largest. 
LisSOTES FORCIPULA, fem. ? 
(Plate IX. fig. 6a, b.) 
In the Hopeian Collection is preserved a small female 
specimen of a Lucanideous species, which Major Parry is 
inclined to regard as the female of the above described 
L. forcipula. Until, however, we are able to obtain more 
decisive evidence of its identity, it will be advisable 
simply to record its existence. It is rather more than 
five limes long; black, glossy, and thickly punctured. 
The head is small, nearly flat in the middle of the anterior 
portion, with a small round tubercle on each side, near 
the base of the mandibles; the punctures of the head are 
larger and more distinct than those of the prothorax ; 
the labrum is transverse, with the middle of the front 
margin porrected into a conical point ; the prothorax is 
much wider than the head, with the lateral margins nar- 
rowly curved towards the head, and finely crenulated ; the 
posterior margin rounded, with the posterior lateral 
angles rounded off. The elytra are much shorter than 
those of L. obtusatus, fem.; they are subovate, widest 
across the middle, each shoulder forming a sharp angle. 
The disc is covered with small oblong punctures, and the 
apical half finely rugulose; the punctures on the disc 
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