DR. F, LEUTHNER ON THE ODONTOLABINI. 437 
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 
tibie 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. 
Total length. Head. Mandibles. Prothorax, Elytra. 
millim, millim, millim. millim, millim. 
( dQ, Kbps 86 14 by 25 30 15 by 30 35 by 28 
Dds. Lenweee 80 14 ,, 25 24 13 4, BO 35 ,, 28 
Telodont ...... SORE Sey as oe 79 12)", 25 25 14 ,, 29:5 34 ,, 28 
f Le ee 75 13, 25 19 14 ,, 28 34 ,, 27 
TG ate 7 Hl. OB 24 13 ,, 26 31 ,, 25 
f Cree a, val 14 ,, 26 16 14:5 ,, 28 34 ,, 28 
‘ Ti Sao raeae 69 2 ,, 24 15 141,, 275 33 ,, 26-5 
A ag 
ee ee 4 ee eee 66 » 24 15 14 ,, 27 32 ,, 25 
Ne Ors a 65 12 ,, 24 15 1, Di 32 ,, 25 
(PELOR erate SP 70 a0) ey al) 13 1D, DA 30 ,, 23 
teal } iter se oe ae 59 10°5,, 20 12 10), OB 29 ,, 23 
a pene at ae eee 50 Bee ce 10 10 ,, 20 27 ,, 21 
GIS ee 47 So, a} Sey TO) 4 ale 24 ,, 19 
Lee ea 53 10 ,, 16 9 13 ,, 24 30 ,, 25 
Osha. danesecansians ea DOAN hee 50 9 ,, 16 8 12 ,, 22 30 ,, 24 
(ee eee ree 43 eae 7 10, eS pog2oee ta 
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 (Jardin 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. siva 
(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 completely 
