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442 DE. F. LEUTHNER ON THE ODONTOLABINI. 



pointing backwards, upper side very convex ; prosternal process generally flattened ; 

 elytra long, oval, strongly convex ; front tibiae loug and narrow, with four or Ave spines 

 above the terminal fork. 



Number of specimens examined: forty-tive males and nineteen females, in th 

 Museums of Leyden, London, Paris, &c. 



Habitat. Java (Ardjoeno). 



Measurements. 



Total length. Head. Mandibles. ProtUorax. Elytra, 



millim. juillini. millim. miUim. millim. 



f 1 87 14 by 28 29 14 by 29 35 by 28 



'^'=''"^''"' •12 84 13 ,; 29 27 15 „ 29 35 „ 28 



Amphiodont, .3 69 12 „ 23 16 13 „ 26 32 „ 25 



(4 59 9 „ 20 13 11 „ 24 29 „ 21 



Priodont . . ] 5 57 9 „ 18 13 U „ 22 29 „ 23 



I 6 48 8 „ 15 10 9 „ 19 25 „ 19 



f 7 48 9 „ 14-5 7 11 „ 22 23 „ 22 



* I 8 49 9 „ 15 8 11 „ 22 28 „ 22 



1, Paris Museum ; 2, 4, 5, British Museum ; 3, 0, Parry's collection ; 7, 8, Leyden Museum. 



This species was first described by Castelnau in 1840. He described the largest 

 male form, and gave a very inaccurate, but recognizable figure, with which the 

 engraver appears to have taken great liberties. Everything is represented too angular, 

 the head is badly drawn, and the front tibine are entirely incorrect. The same may be 

 said of the figure of the female, which Castelnau described on the same page under 

 the name of Lueanus ursus. The prothorax is very badly drawn, and does not at all 

 agree with the description, " cotes du corselet un pen sinuoux avcc une petite dent." 

 The front tibiae are inaccurately drawn, and the spines on the outside are entirely 

 absent. Five years later Hope enriched science with two new species — Lueanus 

 vishnu and L. serrifer, the types of which are now at Oxford, but which, as Parry 

 rightly determined, are simply the amphiodont and priodont forms of the present 

 species fiom Java. This species also is frequently named 0. carinatiis, Linne, in 

 collections. The female stood in the British Museum with 0. siva, so that 1 had 

 the drawing made from a specimen, on the locality of which I could depend, in 

 Mr. Distant's collection. 1 subsequently found a series of specimens in the Leyden 

 Museum collected by Heckmeyer and Reinwald in Ardjoeno. They are very similar 

 to the females of 0. siva and 0. alces, and can scarcely be distinguished from them. 



6. Odontol.\bis celebensis (Lansb.), sp. n. (Plate LXXXVlll. figs. 6-8, <3 .) 

 Male. Similar to the preceding species, but constantly smaller in all its forms ; 

 elytra pitchy black, very shining ; mandibles, head, and prothorax dull, except in 



