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XIV. Illustrations of several additional species of 

 Lucanidaj in the Collection of Major F. J. 

 Sidney Parry. By J. O. Westwood, M.A., 

 F.L.S. 



[Read 16th March, 1874.] 



I AM again indebted to Major F. J. S. Pany for an oppor- 

 tunity of describing several interesting species of Lucanida 

 in his very rich collection of these insects, and of figuring 

 two others (hitherto unrepresented), which have been 

 already described by him. 



The first of these species is so unlike every known insect 

 in the family as to render the establishment of a new genus 

 or sub-genus for its reception necessary. The second is a 

 valuable addition to the genus Meter ochthes, known hitherto 

 by a single species of so great rarity that I believe only a 

 single male and one of the opposite sex are in any cabinet. 

 The fourth species appears to be a strangely developed 

 specimen of the male of Odontolabis striatus. 



Eulepidius luridus. (PI, III. fig. 1.) 



Cyclommato et Prosopocoilo proximus. 



Character subgenericus. — Corpus undique squamosum. 

 Caput transverso-quadratum. Oculi septo antice pauUo 

 incisi. Prosternum simplex. Maxillae inermes. Mentum 

 transversum palporum basin obtegens. Mandibulaa $ 

 capitis longitudine, basi intus in dentem magnum planum 

 triangularem dilatatse. Tibia3 2 antica3 apice extus bifidse. 

 Tarsi subtus setosi. 



Char. spec. — Niger, punctatus, squamulis minutis luteo- 

 sericeis undique tectus ; capite prothorace minori lateribus 

 rectis, oculis antice cantho parum incisis, margine antico 

 clypei late emarginato depresso, et depressione central i 

 notato ; mandibulis capitis longitudine, basi late trigonis, 

 in medio subito intus angulatis, apicibus acutis simplici- 

 bus; pedibus parum elongatis, tibiis anticis apice extei-no 

 producto bifido, 4 posticis simplicibus ; tarsis subtus luteo- 

 setosis, prosterno simplici postice hand angulato retro 

 producto. 



Long. Corp. lin. 8^; mand. lin. H. 



Habitat Borneo. In Mus. Parry. 



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