76 Major F. J. S. Parry on 



(?) Sp. 2. C. Eeichu, ? , Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 

 i. vol. IV. p. 182, pi. 13, fig. 3 {Fholidotus), Colombia; 

 (7. Reichii, S , Thomson, loc. cit. 



Sp. 3. G. Buckley i, (^ $ , n. sp., Ecuador. 



The type specimen (c?) from which both M.Buquet and 

 Mr. Thomson described their remarkable and interesting 

 species of Lucanoid Coleoptera was, up to a very recent 

 period, unique in Count Mniszech's collection ; three or four 

 specimens, however (males) , were received by Mr. Janson 

 from N. Granada during the past year, but, unfortunately, 

 no female was contained in the collection. These specimens 

 have been distributed in the collection of the British 

 Museum, of Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, and in my own. 

 M. Buquet^s description of 0. Luxerii is given entirely in 

 French ; Mr. Thomson's characters, both of the genus 

 and the species, in Latin, are in extenso. A second 

 species of the genus, also recorded by Mr. Thomson in 

 the same publication, was founded upon an insect origin- 

 ally described in the Transactions of our Society by the late 

 Rev. F. W. Hope, under the name of Fholidotus Reichii, 

 ? ; it was located by Mr. Hope, but with some hesita- 

 tion, in the genus Pholidotus. Mr. Thomson, in his 

 publication, inclines to the opinion that Pholidotus Reichii, 

 Hope, is identical with the insect he describes under the 

 name of Cantharolethrus Georgius ; the probability as to 

 the former insect being the female of the latter (or 

 perhaps of another closely allied species) , was also alluded 

 to in my Catalogue of the Lucanoid Coleoptera {vide Tr. 

 Ent. Soc, 1870) . The question as to the sexual affinity 

 between the two insects may now, I further apprehend, 

 be definitively settled ; as the female of another species 

 assimilating closely to G. Reichii has recently been dis- 

 covered by C. Buckley, Esq., during his recent travels 

 in the States of Ecuador. It was taken, together with 

 several male specimens, in the interior of some rotten 

 wood ; a description of this new species is now added 

 under the name of G. Bucldeyi. Mr. Thomson ap- 

 pears to be in error in stating that a specimen of G. 

 Reichii is to be found in the Hopeian Cabinet ; hitherto 

 this insect has, I believe, remained unique in his own 

 collection, having been obtained from that of the Marquis 

 de la Ferte, and is, probably, the identical specimen from 

 which Mr. Hope's description and figure were taken. 

 For the sake of comparison, in respect to certain difieren- 



