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side convex, strongly punctured ; canthus broad ; prothorax very broad, moderately 

 convex, its front edge moderately emarginate on each side ; the front angles acute ; 

 the sides S-shaped as far as the middle spine, and then strongly emarginate ; hind 

 margin waved; prosternal process rounded off and but slightly developed ; elytra broad, 

 oval, with the sides strongly curved outwards; upper side moderately convex; front 

 tibiae with from four to six spines above the terminal fork. 



Number of specimens examined : sixty-eight males and fourteen females, in various 

 European collections. 



Habitat. North India (Silhet) to China and Formosa. 



Measurements. 



Telodont 



Amphiodout .... <( 



1 

 2 

 3 

 ■i 

 5 



G , 



7 



Priodont 



L 9 .... 



r 10 .... 



j n.... 



I 12.... 

 L 13 



r 1 



S < 2 



I 3 



This large species, which is rather common in collections, has been mistaken by 

 authors for Lucanus carinatus, Linn., although it does not at all agree with the 

 description of that species. I found it under this name in the various collections 

 of Vienna, Paris (Jardiu des Plantes), Leyden, and London (British Museum), and in 

 the collections of Messrs. Parry, Bates, and others. This shows the slight importance 

 which is attached to the identification of species, and the careless manner in which 

 errors are transmitted from one collection to another. Reiche (followed by Thomson) 

 regarded this species, misled by the incorrect locality, as a variety of Castelnau's 

 L. bellicosus. Major Parry mistook the smallest male priodont specimens of 0. sim 

 (fig. 6) for Olivier's L. camelus and therefore placed it with the misnamed L. carinatus 

 of Reiche and Thomson. Consequently these very distinct species were comidetely 



